Diane Mayr and Cristal Brawley
Cristal Brawley Inspiration piece Stability Not Stabile-ity By Diane Mayr Response “The aesthetic value of these objects cannot be arrived at by reasoning. Familiarization is necessary.” — Alexander Calder It looked …
Cristal Brawley Inspiration piece Stability Not Stabile-ity By Diane Mayr Response “The aesthetic value of these objects cannot be arrived at by reasoning. Familiarization is necessary.” — Alexander Calder It looked …
Diane Mayr “If We Go Any Slower, We’ll Be Going Backwards” Digital collage Response Girls Are Flyers By Lisa L. Leibow Inspiration piece It was so cold, Chapman Pond had frozen over. …
Diane Mayr “Beasts” Digital collage Response I Know Where the Bodies Accrue Freezer Burn By Anne-Marie Ross Inspiration piece One eye sees one eye remembers. The mouth tears flesh flashes back to when it reached only …
Diane Mayr “Terra in Cognita” Response Meg Max Motherhood in Maps Inspiration piece Motherhood In Maps Enjoy every second of this, here’s your map a grocery list, forgotten. They grow up so fast, here’s …
Paula Lantz Out of My Window! Inspiration piece On the Bay By Diane Mayr Response What was she thinking inviting me along on the Sunfish that day? She, all of fifteen, was a practiced sailor. I …
Diane Mayr “The Right Tool for the Job” Response Sister, the Fly That’s Never Near Walls, and Other Things We Are By Shalini Rana Inspiration piece She’s a splash of red …
Dominic Mazzilli Response Diane Mayr “New England Beach” Inspiration piece New England Beach Icy waters steal one’s breath. Every surface shimmers. Pier fries in a paper cone splashed with cider vinegar. Sloshing cups of chunky …
Dominic Mazzilli Inspiration piece Diane Mayr “Collateral Damage” Response COLLATERAL DAMAGE Smoke obscures the reality. The illustration of human creativity and factual narrative is released from its paper and board covers only to disperse, as ash–the end product of incomplete …
Diane Mayr “A Scheme of Green” Response Cabin Time By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece Opening the chalet door The forest looms encircling all And I dot like in the scheme of green Sluice into …
Janet Buell Ravens in Snow watercolor and colored pencils on watercolor paper. 6” x 8” Inspiration piece Diane Mayr Ravens in Snow: three cherita Response Ravens in Snow: three cherita we humans must …
Janet Buell February Couture Sennelier soft pastels on black paper. 6” x 8” Response Diane Mayr February Dusk Inspiration piece February Dusk Dusty rose embroidered in ice blue. The designing moon peers proudly upon a gown resplendent with crystals. “Will you let me …
Mary Hill “Done with moving: Relaxing” Response Diane Mayr Untitled cherita Inspiration piece packing to go no room in the cardboard boxes what remains to pack needs only the space between her ears —————————————— Note: All of the …
Mary Hill Purple & Gold Landscape 2 Inspiration piece Diane Mayr Paradise, 2018 Response Paradise, 2018: a pair of cherita “It will take a while. But it will get better. It always …
Jonathan Ottke Galileo Inspiration piece Diane Mayr In the Wood Response In the Wood Diseased and dying it leans southward ruffled with brackets laced with molds. What was once vitally green now has a vividly colorful life of another …
Diane Mayr “That Dirt” Response Rachel Brown Fog Inspiration piece His forehead pressed against the window, and he breathed hard against the glass pane. The train swayed slightly as it curved …
Diane Mayr Buzzcut Inspiration piece Robert Haydon Jones Lord Jim’s Little Finger Response Lord Jim’s Little Finger By Robert Haydon Jones The trouble started when Billy, his eldest son, dug into the family’s …
Diane Mayr The Plague Response Robert Haydon Jones Letter from Norway Inspiration piece Letter from Norway By Robert Haydon Jones Terry Moran had always enjoyed an unfair advantage as a handsome man, but …
Diane Mayr She Speaks Snow response Lisa Kilhefner New York Inspiration piece New York By Lisa Kilhefner She sneezes; his heart wrinkles in a metal trashcan on the corner of the room. He weeps, …
Diane Mayr It’s Always About Man Inspiration piece Rebecca Smolen The Apple Emulates Man’s Independence and Enterprise Response The Apple Emulates Man’s Independence and Enterprise Food and drink within Apples are quite the …
Diane Mayr The Reason Why Response Rebecca Smolen Van Gogh Could See It Inspiration piece Van Gogh Could See It If you were to really look at a fading sun disintegrating into the horizon, its’ …
Diane Mayr “What I Know” Response “The Silent Valley” By Eleanor Marie Lattner Inspiration piece The Silent Valley There is a cavalry from afar; I can hear their haunted hooves when they search the …
Diane Mayr “I Try Not to Act Bitter” Response Sometimes I Lie By Amy Souza Inspiration piece I picked snap peas in the rain and Dan said I looked miserable No difference …
Diane Mayr “Sock Ideologies” Response my heart fell out / an aftermath By Leslie Grollman Inspiration piece Because Zachary Schomburg’s poem ‘Haircuts’ & the performance of it at Poetry Press Week …
Diane Mayr “Double Meaning” Response Fury Is a Crisis By Amy Souza Inspiration piece It’s said that in relationship we anticipate another’s needs. We understand things about them that they can’t …
Diane Mayr “A Hiss” Response Digital collage (“Self Portrait with Charlotte Berend and a Glass of Champagne” by Lovis Corinth; lithograph by Pierre Bonnard). #149 By Robin R. …
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