Sometimes The Prompt Stops You Cold
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“I fear and hope. I burn and freeze like ice.”~Sir Thomas Wyatt
Make art about the first freeze, about the big freeze, about freezing, or being frozen.
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Sometimes The Prompt Just Begins To Fall
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“This, then, is the gift the world has given me/(you have given me)/softly the snow”~Diana Di Prima
Make art with first snow as the central metaphor.
Sometimes You Just Gotta Let The Prompt Go
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Sometimes people just have to deal with their own issues.
Make art about letting people go.
Bless and release, y’all ❤
Sometimes the Prompt Really Haunts You
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Working on this chapbook of ghost poems.
Make art about a haunting.
The Last Daily Prompt of 2015 :-) Happy New Year, Y’all!
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“a child carrying flowers walks toward the new year”~Bei Dao
Make art envisioning the new year.
(The Flower Carrier by Diego Rivera)
Sometimes the Prompt Is All Wet
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“..the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open…”~Herman Melville
Make art about the mythologies of water.
Sometimes the Prompt Is Doubtful
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My son jokes, saying he doesn’t believe in electricity.
Make art inspired by the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as….’
Sometimes the Prompt Is a Change
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“In the space between chaos and shape there is another chance.”~Jeannette Winterson
Make art about rising to the challenge of change.
Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Anticipation, Animals, and a Little Bit of Messiah Thrown In
Dec 24
Remembering being a little kid breathlessly waiting for Santa 🙂 Make art about anticipation.
Dec 25
Much of the work I did in papers for my Anthropology degree focused on the origins of Judaism and early Christianity, a lot of it centered around belief in a messiah, in messianic traditions. Many religions have a messiah concept, including the Jewish Messiah (from which the term and meaning originates, from the Hebrew in which the word Messiah is identical to the noun and adjectiveמשיח (mashiach), meaning Anointed One, and comes from the Hebrew verbמשח (mashah), meaning to anoint. Other messianic traditions include the Christian Christ( the Greek translation of the Hebrew root word), the Muslim Mahdi and Isa (one of the Arabic names for Jesus), the Buddhist Maitreya, the Hindu Kalki, the Zoroastrian Saoshyant and He whom God shall make manifest in Bábism (believed to be Bahá’u’lláh by Bahais). The state of the world, in most of these traditions, is seen as hopelessly flawed beyond normal human powers of correction, and divine intervention through a specially selected and supported human is seen as necessary.
Make art about saviors. Make art redefining what it might mean to be a savior. Make art about being your own savior.
Dec 26
Traveling to celebrate with family today. Make art about a family roadtrip.
Dec 27
Watching PBS nature documentaries with my son 🙂 Make art about the candor and ingenuity of animals.
Sometimes The Prompt Shows the Way
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Loving the lights this gray rainy day.
Make art about Light.
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