Daily Prompt Love <3 In the Distance
28 March 2017
Make art inspired by this line.
“In the distance someone is singing.”-Neruda
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Daily Prompt Love <3 In Which Direction
24 March 2017
Many cultures hold sacred meaning for each of the cardinal directions.
Make art about a compass. Or about choosing a direction.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Fixing What's Broken
So in the last few months, I’ve experienced a broken pipe, a broken arm, and broken car.
Make art about fixing what’s broken.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Study in Contrasts
1/7/2017
White snow, black treeline. Make art that’s a study in contrasts.
Daily Prompt Love <3 The Study of Us
17 December 2016
One of my undergrad degrees is in Anthropology, and the gift of that, the ability to view ‘us’ through the detailed and complex lens I learned from my amazing professors in that field still, every day, shapes the way I move through the world.
I first discovered Anthropology in the library as a child, those trips we made to get books every weekend with my mama, and one of the things I first loved about the anthropology books I found was that, in those books, I found women–not as subjects (although that fascinated me too)–but as the authors, as the experts: Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, Jane Goodall. They were who I imagined myself to be as I “excavated’ arrrowheads and shark teeth from the plowed up tobacco field beside the trailer park where I lived as a child.
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“It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.”
―Jane Goodall, British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace
“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.”~Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist and author
“I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself, and one for the world.”~ Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist and folklorist
Make art inspired by anthropology, by an anthropological discovery.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Stranded, and the Fog
13 December 2016
That Lil Red Car is headed into the shop this morning. I’m now marooned in my lil house 🙂 It’s all good.
Make art about being stranded.
14 December 2016
The pups and I wandered through this this morning.
Make art about walking in a fog.
Daily Prompt Love <3 The Wild in You
Feral: ˈferəl,ˈfirəl/
adjective
Df: (especially of an animal) in a wild state, especially after escape from captivity or domestication.
Make art about wildness, about being in a state of wildness, about escaping domestication.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Facing the Darkness
21 November 2016
Make art about facing the darkness, even, especially our own.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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