"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

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Survivors and Rain

Daily Prompt Catch-Up!

3/18/2016

Make art about survivors.

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3/19/2016

Make art inspired by a rainy Saturday.

rainy_days_by_ridiculousdream

Sometimes We Have to Lean Into the Prompt

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Make art about the difference between hearing and listening. 

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Sometimes You Have To Let the Prompt In

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Before my mama went on to the next life, she told me “You’ve got to LET someone love you, Mary, really Love you.” One of the lessons I’m still learning, both about myself, and about other people.

You can only love someone as much as they’ll let you.

Make art inspired by this.

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Great insights on this can be found here.

Sometimes the Prompt Floats On the Fields

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…careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist …”~John Geddes

Make art with mist as the central metaphor.

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Sometimes the Prompt Shifts and Flows

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“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” – Albert Einstein

Make art with deliberate shifts in time. 

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Sometimes the Prompt Is Just Out of Our Reach

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Make art about searching for something. 

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Sometimes the Prompt Leaves Us Alone

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“But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

Make art about solitude, about needing solitude, about the solace in solitude.

solitude

Sometimes the Prompt Reminds Us Who We Are

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Make art about the flow of energy.

Sometimes the Prompt Keeps Us Company

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Did you ever think that, maybe, a child’s imaginary playmate might actually be there?

Make art about an imaginary friend.

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Sometimes the Prompt Rebuilds Us

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Today I’m building myself/from the bones/of flowers”~Mary Carroll-Hackett

Make art about the self as a seed, a growing thing requiring nurturing, a blossom.

(from a poem that originally appeared in Tar River Poetry, one that will be my book coming out this spring, A Little Blood, A Little Rain, forthcoming from FutureCycle Press).

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