Category Archive: SPARK 17

Work from SPARK 17: September 12 – 21, 2012

Claire Guyton and Rachel Morton

Claire Guyton and Rachel Morton

Rachel Morton Inspiration piece Welcome Home By Claire Guyton Response I think of my grandfather and see first that expression he used to get on his face when he was …

 

Marla Deschenes
and Fiona Avocado

Marla Deschenes
and Fiona Avocado

Fiona Avocado Inspiration piece Morning Rituals By Marla Deschenes Response The simple ways of living are the beauty in this suburban jungle The mornings where I cross that floor full of …

 

Joshua Winegarner,
Helen Lewis, and Laura Shovan

Joshua Winegarner,
Helen Lewis, and Laura Shovan

Helen Lewis Inspiration Piece Feel What I’m Singing Found Poem By Laura Shovan Inspiration Piece Someone asked me the other day, they said, Etta, you know you had a rollercoaster of a …

 

Katie Helms and Heidi Mordhorst

Katie Helms and Heidi Mordhorst

Katie Helms Spring watercolor, sumi ink, graphite on paper Inspiration piece loop fling shroud By Heidi Mordhorst Response   clouds of birds swoop separately together, evening wing tips crowding loudly — dark leaves on twigs seeping spring …

 

Heidi Mordhorst and Katie Helms

Heidi Mordhorst and Katie Helms

Katie Helms Secret Sounds Response Listen With Your Eyes By Heidi Mordhorst Inspiration piece “I can sing the Alphabet Song in silent language.” ******************* Listen with Your Eyes Secret clutched in a closed fist: If …

 

Pharoah Bolding and Blaine Klitzke

Pharoah Bolding and Blaine Klitzke

Oregon Coast – Newport Beach. Photo taken by Pharoah Bolding.   Blaine Klitzke – Double Falcon Summer (Click for MP3) Inspiration piece   Beach Comber By Pharoah Bolding Response He always enjoyed the …

 

Brenna Crotty and
Brian MacDonald

Brenna Crotty and
Brian MacDonald

Brian MacDonald Inspiration piece   Spark By Brenna Crotty Response   Because he didn’t leave any Personal Belongings at the flat, We have no hairbrushes or notebooks, or soccer jerseys from university, Or love letters to …

 

Lynne Elizabeth Heiser
and Tim O’Kane

Lynne Elizabeth Heiser
and Tim O’Kane

  Lynne Elizabeth Heiser For the Love You Know Mixed Media on Canvas Response The Love You Know By Tim O’Kane Inspiration piece There’s no love like new love – the true romantic’s …

 

Tim O’Kane and
Lynne Elizabeth Heiser

Tim O’Kane and
Lynne Elizabeth Heiser

Lynne Elizabeth Heiser A La Luce Mixed Media on Canvas Inspiration piece Troublous Dreams By Tim O’Kane Response “This man is walking to work, same way as always, and he crosses Wielhe …

 

Cristal Guderjahn
and Jan Irene Miller

Cristal Guderjahn
and Jan Irene Miller

Jan Irene Miller Inspiration piece Cristal Guderjahn Response “Turn left.” He had turned right. He had turned right to avoid the onramp. Her sense of direction had typically caused him to imagine …

 

Irene Plax and Tora Estep

Irene Plax and Tora Estep

Tora Estep Sumptuous Bird, oil on canvas Inspiration piece   Irene Plax Response Ms. Marimba was sent in to be the Kindergarten co-teacher, but unfortunately for her, Miss D was there …

 

Yebyul Oh and
Elizabeth Akin Stelling

Yebyul Oh and
Elizabeth Akin Stelling

Yebyul Oh Response Small Knots By Elizabeth Akin Stelling Inspiration piece Each time my hands ran through your locks trying to comb out restlessness my fingers would stop in your tiny strands watching blown …

 

Elizabeth Akin Stelling
and Yebyul Oh

Elizabeth Akin Stelling
and Yebyul Oh

                  Yebyul Oh Inspiration piece Everything Is Beautiful To A Little Girl By Elizabeth Akin Stelling Response Young eyes scan the unfamiliar room moving over black upon black toward curve of the shoulder as …

 

Kathleen Jordan and Nicholas Clark

Kathleen Jordan and Nicholas Clark

Nicholas Clark seasonsEND Response piece   Kathleen Jordan Seasons End Inspiration piece   Sparkling bubbling Chrystal like water Stroke

 

Nicholas Clark and Marcela Horness

Nicholas Clark and Marcela Horness

Marcela Horness Untitled Inspiration piece Nicholas Clark Brothers Response piece our arms sway earnestly like candle flames we pine for PEZ, sticky Kraft singles, pizza flavoured Pringles we croak like frogs, slump into …

 

Brian MacDonald and Nina Simon

Brian MacDonald and Nina Simon

Brian MacDonald Response   Nina Simon Inspiration piece Ladies of the Night You were no lady just an abandoned kid from the back streets of Glasgow while I never knew starvation nor lacked a mother’s …

 

Katie Helms and Robbi Nester

Katie Helms and Robbi Nester

Katie Helms Response My Memory Palace By Robbi Nester Inspiration piece The ancients found remembering was simple if they built in memory a place to stash each name or fact. I have …

 

Lisa Reutzel and Sandy Coleman

Lisa Reutzel and Sandy Coleman

Sandy Coleman Inspiration Piece Starry Night By Lisa Reutzel Response I still remember the first time I ever saw the stars.  I was twelve years old.  I know what you’re …

 

Russ McIntosh and
Robert Haydon Jones

Russ McIntosh and
Robert Haydon Jones

Russ McIntosh Dual Vistas Digital Photo Illustration Response Blue Sky By Robert Haydon Jones Inspiration piece I want to lie. I want to say they didn’t off that blue sky. That yesterday morning when …

 

Blain Klitzke and Daryl Morazzini

Blain Klitzke and Daryl Morazzini

Art response by Blain Klitzke   Story by Daryl Morazzini Granny Moons   Although poor mountain ministers were not the sort of boys her family would have wished her to …

 

Blain Klitzke and Pharoah Bolding

Blain Klitzke and Pharoah Bolding

    Blain_Klitzke-Boss_Fight(Click for MP3) Response Pharoah Bolding Inspiration piece You would think that after years of fighting men twice her size that Adelaide Primm would have encountered everything a man …

 

Loring Resler and Robin Peace

Loring Resler and Robin Peace

Loring Resler Response #31 By Robin Peace Inspiration piece In the cold fathoms of my soul I know what’s right But I run and hide For fear the pain will encompass me In …

 

Robin Peace and Loring Resler

Robin Peace and Loring Resler

Loring Resler Inspiration Piece My Forbidden Love By Robin Peace Response I close my eyes.  My mind is alive with white-hot neon light.  I open my eyes and the light …

 

Sandy Coleman and Marla Deschenes

Sandy Coleman and Marla Deschenes

  Sandy Coleman Inspiration Piece Sundance/Moondance Response by Marla Deschenes There were days when we danced for the sun There were days we danced for the moon When our differences were what made …

 

Tora Estep and Irene Plax

Tora Estep and Irene Plax

Tora Estep Response   Gain Muscle! Twelve Workouts for a Slimmer, More Energetic You! 5 Workday Meals to get you through the week! It was too early for Allison …