Author: Kamika Cooper

Kamika Cooper and Channie Greenberg

Kamika Cooper and Channie Greenberg

Channie Greenberg “Access Denied” Inspiration piece   Just Trippin By Kamika Cooper Response i began a trip without a destination or clear direction criss-crossing highways navigating one way streets just looking for you i looked in churches and sat …

 

Anya Mayer and Kamika Cooper

Anya Mayer and Kamika Cooper

Anya Mayer “Summer Daze” Ink on paper Repsonse   This is for By Kamika Cooper Inspiration piece this is for attentive eyes and rich brown skin reminding me of afrika and heart home i must have …

 

Kamika Cooper and Anya Mayer

Kamika Cooper and Anya Mayer

Anya Mayer “Rainbow Moon Fish” watercolor with India ink on handmade Tibetan paper Inspiration piece   Out of Our Element By Kamika Cooper Response told us to stay home but we did not taking rockets …

 

Susan Burton and Kamika Cooper

Susan Burton and Kamika Cooper

Susan Burton “Below” Digital art Response Countdown By Kamika Cooper Inspiration piece 7 rest easy knowing there is peace in your silence so run your mouth less 6 we see you in need down on the train station …

 

Kamika Cooper and Susan Burton

Kamika Cooper and Susan Burton

Susan Burton “Ice Cream” Digital art, photography Inspiration piece Quarantine By Kamika Cooper Response i remain inside pretending i am outside for a while that works scroll tap click checkout any little thing i want here in …

 

Kamika Cooper and Amy Souza

Kamika Cooper and Amy Souza

Amy Souza photography Inspiration piece   Overcast By Kamika Cooper Response “What are you doing here?” Gretchen sat cross-legged, making swirls in the sand with her fingers. She had been sitting peacefully at …

 

Jonathan Ottke and Kamika Cooper

Jonathan Ottke and Kamika Cooper

Jonathan Ottke “We” Pen, ink, paper Response Ancestral Mantra By Kamika Cooper Inspiration piece we hope you live we hope you thrive we hope you find the strength to fight and speak your mind we hope …

 

Kamika Cooper and Jonathan Ottke

Kamika Cooper and Jonathan Ottke

Jonathan Ottke “Cherry Petals on Water” Photography Inspiration piece Abandoned By Kamika Cooper Response you heard what they said about me and you believed every word shook me right off your tree like the fruit …

 

Kamika Cooper and Chandra Achberger

Kamika Cooper and Chandra Achberger

Chandra Achberger Inspiration piece “Will You Come?” By Kamika Cooper Response The journey to Restoration Valley had taken two and a half days. The weather had been perfect: clear skies, …

 

Kamika Cooper and Urmilla Khanna

Kamika Cooper and Urmilla Khanna

Kamika Cooper “my healer” digital photography/illustration response   Art and Science in Medicine By Urmilla Khanna Inspiration piece “Jonathan has an earache?” I said in a half-angry voice as I took an emergency …

 

Susan B and Kamika Cooper

Susan B and Kamika Cooper

Susan B “Dreaming” digital photography Response   You Did By Kamika Cooper Inspiration piece thank you for all the things you taught me for all the smiles you brought me stopping to say hello even though didn’t …

 

Kamika Cooper and Susan B

Kamika Cooper and Susan B

Susan B “Portal” digital photography Inspiration piece   Rendezvous By Kamika Cooper Response i never understood how love could be forbidden as if what exists between you and me is anyone else’s business or concern as …

 

Kamika Cooper and MM Panas

Kamika Cooper and MM Panas

MM Panas “Take Back the Night” acrylic paint, charcoal, collage on paper 22” x 30″ Inspiration piece Keep the Night By Kamika Cooper Response cannot take back what was not mine to begin …

 

Darice Jones and Kamika Cooper

Darice Jones and Kamika Cooper

Kamika Cooper “earlybyrd” digital photography Inspiration piece   Morning Twilight By Darice Shatteen-Jones Response I woke up at dark thirty (as we call the deep night in some parts of our African diaspora) …

 

Kamika Cooper and Darice Jones

Kamika Cooper and Darice Jones

Kamika Cooper “currentsurfer” digital photography Response   This Time Around By Darice Shatteen-Jones Inspiration Piece I wanted to be the bird But I was the air Expanding everything that pulled me in Holding things up Without being …

 

Kamika Cooper and Cathy Stevens Pratt

Kamika Cooper and Cathy Stevens Pratt

Cathy Stevens Pratt Inspiration piece   Greed By Kamika Cooper Response she arose from waves powerful and mountainous a sight to behold she threw her head back hair cascading wildflowers seeds and sustenance we opened our mouths feasting …

 

Kimberly DeMucha Kalil
and Kamika Cooper

Kimberly DeMucha Kalil
and Kamika Cooper

“Rebirth” Kimberly DeMucha Kalil alcohol ink on 5×7 Yupo paper Response Harmless By Kamika Cooper Inspiration piece sometimes little girls will place themselves in harm’s way chasing little boys sometimes little boys will engage in harmful …

 

Kamika Cooper and
Kimberly DeMucha Kalil

Kamika Cooper and
Kimberly DeMucha Kalil

“Genesis” Kimberly DeMucha Kalil alcohol ink on 9×12 Yupo paper Inspiration piece Creator By Kamika Cooper Response i am a childless mother of creations born from color and brush shades of myself have bent and curved …

 

Kamika Cooper and Victoria Nesson

Kamika Cooper and Victoria Nesson

Victoria Nesson “Green I” Inspiration piece Envie’s Ivy by Kamika Cooper Response Envie didn’t drive a sleek, black luxury car or live in a swanky community with manicured lawns. She didn’t …

 

Amy Moffitt and Kamika Cooper

Amy Moffitt and Kamika Cooper

“Hey Hey Baltimore” (Music) By Amy Moffitt Response http://getsparked.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Hey-Hey-Baltimore.mp3   Hello Baltimore By Kamika Cooper (Poetry and digital photography) Inspiration piece i’ve heard a lot of bad things about you heard you set them …

 

Kamika Cooper and Amy Moffitt

Kamika Cooper and Amy Moffitt

Whereever You Go There You Are by Amy Moffitt music and digital photography Inspiration piece http://getsparked.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Whereever-You-Go-There-You-Are.mp3   Here I Am by Kamika Cooper Response here i am but it’s time to go long before my …

 

Patty Gordon and Lizzie Parker

Patty Gordon and Lizzie Parker

Patty Gordon The Process Response Regret is a Process By Lizzie Parker Inspiration piece I started things I shouldn’t have. Things I thought I was supposed to do, even if or perhaps …

 

Lizzie Parker and Patty Gordon

Lizzie Parker and Patty Gordon

Patty Gordon Inspiration piece Not Enough P.C.R.W By Lizzie Parker Response I do not see a star-spangled banner of red white and blue only anger embarrassment and disappointment lashed by selfish greed …

 

Kamika Cooper and Brian MacDonald

Kamika Cooper and Brian MacDonald

Brian MacDonald Photography Inspiration piece Shaper by Kamika Cooper Response come on and shape me bend and me make me come alive use your hands to mold me i know you’ll blow me up …

 

Kirsten Weeks and Kamika Cooper

Kirsten Weeks and Kamika Cooper

Kirsten Weeks collage with graphite, acrylic, paper, water crayons, and paint film Response Contain Yourself By Kamika Cooper Inspiration piece please contain yourself don’t spill your chaos in my space when you rearrange …