in·tu·i·tion
ˌint(y)o͞oˈiSH(ə)n/
noun
1 the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning.
“we shall allow our intuition to guide us”
2 a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning.
“your insights and intuitions as a native speaker are positively sought”
Make art about intuition, about using intuition, about what is revealed or understood intuitively.
15 December 2016
Dreamt I was rescuing babies from some catastrophe.
Make art about rescue, about rescuing, about being rescued.
Mine Rescue by Fletcher Martin
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.
4 December 2016
Make art about nothing going as you planned.
5 December 2016
Make art about driving in the dark.
6 December 2016
Make art about standing up for yourself.
7 December 2016
Make art about corruption, about calling out corruption.
8 December 2016
Make art about needing silence, about the recharge, rebirth, renewal of strength to be found a a period of silence.
9 December 2016
Make art about needing to scream, about the release, the energy, the power, to be found in a good primal scream.
10 December 2016
Make art about hospitals, about being in the hospital.
11 December 2016
Make art about drawing strength from the energy and creativity and spontaneity of young people.
12 December 2016
Make art about coming to terms with the inevitability of death.
2 December 2016
De·fi·ance (dəˈfīəns/) noun
open resistance; bold disobedience.
“the demonstration was held in defiance of official warnings”
Make art about acts of defiance, small or large.
3 December 2016
Making new stocking for our family with remnants of late 40s-early 50s vintage fabric.
Make art about remaking something old into something new.
1 December 2016
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver’s order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled.
Make art inspired by this, about doing what’s right.
30 November 2016
“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I’m two, and both keep their distance”-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Make art about restlessness, about disquiet.
29 November 2016
I’ve had only two brief replies to all of the emails and letters I’ve sent to my senators, members of Congress, or the White House. The two I have received came from Senators Kaine and Warner. Neither response actually addressed what I had written them. Neither response actually said anything at all.
Nonanswer (noun (plural nonanswers)
Make art about someone giving a Non-Answer.
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Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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