"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 ‘Bless the Day’ Category

Sometimes the Prompt Makes You Brave

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Made myself do something I was terrified to do.
 
Make art about that moment you push through fear.
 
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Sometimes You Bump Into the Prompt

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Talking with my students about and thinking a lot about tension arising from juxtaposition.
Make art about unexpected juxtapositions.
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Sometimes the Prompt is the Ritual

9/14/2015
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“Like primitives we buried the cat with his bowl”~Jane Kenyon

Make art about burial rituals, about our need for rites.
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Sometimes the Prompt Catches You Unaware

9/13/2015 Woke up hearing the heavens singing 🙂 Had to share ❤

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“I heard an Angel singing/ When the day was springing/ Mercy Pity Peace…”~William Blake

Make art about everyday angels.

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Sometimes the Prompt Tastes Like Rain

9/10/2015

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“The taste of every living thing is in the raindrop”~Afaa Michael Weaver

Make art about the taste of weather.

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Sometimes the Memory Is the Poem <3

Woke up hearing someone sing this ❤ “Let the light guide your way. Hold every memory as you go.” ❤

Needed reminder that bodies may end, but Love never does. ❤

Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Salvage, Reconstruct, and Dreams of Lace

 

Daily Prompt Catch-Up 😀 Soooo busy around here lately! LOL

9/4/2015

Lots of thinkin this week about salvage. “The wreck is a fact…The salvage trucks back in and the salvage men begin to sort and stack, whistling as they work.”~Kay Ryan Make art about salvage, or salvaging something.

 

9/5/2015

Sink, suffer, self-destruct. Rise stronger, reconstruct”~Lamb of God Make art about reconstruction, about reconstructing from what’s left.

 

9/6/2015

Someone I love is battling cancer. Make art about illnesss or disease.

 

9/7/2015

Dreamt someone I love brought me yards of unbleached cotton and lace. Make art with flowing white fabric, or lace, or lacing as the central metaphor.

 

 

Sometimes the Prompt is the Key :-)

9/1/2015

Dreamt someone I love gave me a ring full of keys and I gleefully skipped around unlocking and throwing open doors. 🙂

Make art about keys, about finding the key. keys

 

Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Big Family Weekend :-)

 

Daily Prompt Catch-Up 🙂

8/29/2015

All my kids coming home for a visit 🙂 Make art about visitors.

 

8/30/2015

You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.” ~Diane Samuels Make art about children, young or adult, or about parenting.

 

8/31/2015

I’m fixin to go on a sewin binge 🙂 The first known sewing needle came from southwestern France and dates to about 25,000 years ago. When I sew, I feel an endless procession of women surround me, as I, in my small way, add to the story. Make art about sewing, or needlework, or stitching something together.

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A set of bone needles from the Cave of Courbet in the Aveyron Valley, near Toulouse, France. Believed to be over 13,000 years old.

Daily Prompt :-) In Pieces

8/24/2015

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Woke up feeling like life’s full of promise 🙂 So many dreams last night, but all that remains are shining fragments 🙂

Make art about fragments.

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