"This work is unlike any other, in its range of rich, conjuring imagery and its dexterity, its smart voice. Carroll-Hackett doesn’t spare us—but doesn’t save us—she draws a blueprint of power and class with her unflinching pivot: matter-of-fact and tender." —Jan Beatty

Archive for the ‘2016 Prompts’ Category

Sometimes the Prompt Makes You Grope and Stumble

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(Or what happens when I watch X-Files in the mornin LOL)
 
“Inside the mystery…It was better to just grope around with careful claws and paws”~Michael Benedikt
 
Make art about moving through mystery.
ghost hand

Sometimes The Prompt Takes a Little Faith

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Been workin a lot on feeling worthy, puttin myself out there, makin myself do things that just a year a go I wouldn’t have done.
 
Make art about having faith in yourself.believe-in-yourself-a-little-more

Sometimes The Prompt Takes You Back

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Preparing for that first grandbaby got me thinkin 🙂 Genetic memory is a memory present at birth that exists in the absence of sensory experience, and is incorporated into the genome over long spans of time.
 
Make art about or inspired by genetic memory. DNA

Sometimes The Prompt Has To Be Unpacked

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Dreamt a storage complex, throwing the doors open to light.
 
Make art about unpacking what you kept stored.
 
mystery box

Sometimes the Prompt Yips and Howls

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Pups and I heard the coyotes singin when we were out this morning.
 
Make art about coyotes.
 
coyote

Sometimes the Prompt Is Feminine and Divine

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Today’s gift has been conversation with my daughter, and missing my mama ❤
 
Make art about generations of women.
generations of women

Sometimes The Prompt Lights You Up

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Dreamt someone I love built a fire in a snowbank.

Make art about warmth, or about love bringing warmth.

fire in snow

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Sometimes the Prompt Is a Slow Thaw

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“Left to itself the heart could almost melt, could mend.”~JIll Osier
 
Make art about what’s revealed in the melting.
 
melt

Sometimes The Prompt Is A Thing With Feathers

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Little Juncos, as if they’re floating, on top of the snow.

Make art about balancing on the surface.

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