Daily Prompt Love <3 It's on You
Make art about accountability, about being held accountable.

These last few months, the upheaval, uncertainty, not only in the world at large, but in my own life, with the loss of my sister, knocked me back on my heels a bit. Things–actions–activism–I knew I had to do took over, but now I feel I have found a rhythm, found my feet, and so much of what I’ve worked through, thought through, clarified for myself in these last weeks, has been about what I will not surrender.
Art is at the heart of what I refuse to surrender, making it, sharing it, learning from it, from those with the courage to make it. Nope. No amount of fear-mongering will move me to abandon the making, or the makers.
Make art about what you will not surrender.

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.

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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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.

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