17 March 2020
Often we’re too busy to notice the view right in front of us. One of my students, when I asked about what they missed being away from home, softly described the view of the city at night from his bedroom window in what he called ‘the projects where I live.’
“At night,” he said, “the lights go on forever, and every light, I think, is a soul.”
Make art about seeing the world through your window.
Prompt Love Catch-Up!
6 July 2017
Make art about packing for a trip, what to leave in, what to leave out.
7 July 2017
Make art about arrivals, about arriving.
8 July 2017
Make art about reunion of souls.
9 July 2017
Liminal: occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.
Make art about liminal space.
10 July 2017
Make art about light and dark, about the juxtaposition of light to dark, about how we need one to know the other. (with love to Mesha Maren ❤ )
11 July 2017
Make art about moving past obstacles (with love to Rahul Mehta ❤ )
12 July 2017
Make art about a whisper, or a howl (with love to Kim Dana Kupperman ❤ )
13 July 2017
Make art about relocating in our own bodies (with love to Jon Corcoran ❤ )
14 July 2017
Make art about the amalgamous nature of memory, of how sometimes the amalgam is more true. (With love to Eric Waggoner ❤ )
15 July 2017
Make art about point of view, about deliberately shifting point of view (with love to Rodney Jones ❤ )
16 July 2017
Make art about departures.
17 July 2017
Make art about driving alone, about that silence in the cocoon of the car.
24 March 2017
Many cultures hold sacred meaning for each of the cardinal directions.
Make art about a compass. Or about choosing a direction.
11/5/2016
Make art about turning around, going back.
11/6/2016
Make art about slipping away.
4 November 2016
I love my GPS, but I also love my old school Atlas Map. Make art about maps, mapping, or going off the map.
And hopefully I’m back on track with these 🙂 ❤ Love y’all!
10/10/2016
Make art about buried treasure.
10/11/2016
Make art about working toward a goal.
10/12/2016
Make art about the sound of walking.
10/13/2016
Make art about frailty.
10/14/2016
Make art about a youngest child, that last child.
10/15/2016
Make art about what’s revealed in the moonlight.
10/16/2016
Make art about birds on a wire.
10/17/2016
Make art about going back in time.
10/18/2016
Make art about leaving an inheritance, or receiving one, on what’s inherited.
10/19/2016
My mama used to quote the Bible, saying, “Never a prophet in your own land.” Make art inspired by this quote.
10/20/2016
Make art about transitions.
10/21/2016
I really want to take a ceramics class. Make art about what you want to learn.
10/22/2016
Make art about excavation, literal or metaphorical.
10/23/2016
Canning apples for days. Make art about the fruits of autumn.
10/24/2016
Make art about every day angel encounters.
10/25/2016
Make art about the sacredness of water.
10/26/2016
Make art about making a trip home.
10/27/2016
Make art about what kind of road your heart would be.
10/28/2016
“When born, you inherit what’s burning.”~Liam Rector Make art inspired by this quote.
10/29/2016
Make art about night driving.
10/30/2016
A friend came across an old painting that looks just like me. Make art about doppelgangers.
10/31/2016
I set out food for the ancestors, cornmeal and milk for the wee folk, lit a fire and watched it burn. Make art about ancient traditions.
11/1/2016
Sometimes the sorrow is so deep, all I know to do is cook. Make art about process sorrow in an unexpected way.
11/2/2016
Make art consoling, receiving, or giving, consolation.
11/3/2016
Make art about feeling paralyzed.
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Back to the daily daily tomorrow!
10/4/2016
I grew up in Hurricane Alley, eastern North Carolina, so the preparation for these big storms is something I learned early. Hurricane Matthew has ripped through Haiti, and is on his way to the US East Coast. All my provisions are laid in, flashlights and emergency equipment in place and ready, and I’ve battened down as much as I can. But sometimes Mama Nature’s just too big and unpredictable for any kind of preparation.
Make art about preparing the best you can.
10/5/2016
Thinking a lot today about all the ways people find their way to, or demonstrate faith. Took me immediately to one of my top three favorite songs, The Mountain, by Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer.
Excerpted Lyrics by Dave Carter
Some build temples and some find altars,
some come in tall hats and robes spun fine.
Some in rags, some in gemstone halters,
some push the pegs back in line.
I see the mountain, the mountain comes to me,
I see the mountain and that is all I see.
Make art about temples or altars or shrines, faith in some unexpected way.
10/6/2016
Road Angel Andrea at Walmart today told me about her grandmama teaching her to sew, first by making curtains, long straight hems, she said, over and over again, summer curtains, winter curtains with their heavy lining. She said her grandmama was patient but tough, making her tear out crooked stitches, and try again til she got it right. “I learned to take my time,” she said. “I learned to take my time, look ahead of the foot, and how a pair of curtains can make all the difference in a room.”
Make art about curtains. Or about what you learned from an elder.
Daily Prompt
Make art about early morning driving.
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