"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

Posts tagged ‘Writing as Resistance’

Daily Prompt Love <3 Building or Breaking

3 August 2017

Make art about trust, trusting, not trusting, broken trust, building, breaking, or rebuilding trust. 

trust

Daily Prompt Love <3 Continue

2 August 2017

Make art about continuing. 

van gogh meme

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Natural Elegance

1 August 2017

el·e·gance

  (ĕl′ĭ-gəns)

n.

Refinement, grace, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.

Tasteful opulence in form, decoration, or presentation.

Restraint and grace of style.

 

Make art about the elegance of the natural world.

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Teaching and Singing

30 July 2017

Was asked by another young person to teach him about cooking and food preservation. Blows up my heart to pass the old wisdom on ❤ 

Make art about preserving and teaching old wisdom.

goodall old wisdom

31 July 2017 

Woke up hearing music this morning, a tenor singing down the hall, song woven through the fabric of my waking air

Make art about who you hear singing in the distance. 

hearing music

 

Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Chasing Your Tail

28 July 2017

Make art about someone who speaks without thinking.

think_full

29 July 2017

Make art about chasing your own tail.

cat-chasing-its-tail-o

Daily Prompt Love <3 He Who Sows Discord

27 July 2017 

Make art about those who sow discord, about resisting the chaos they create.

sowing-discord bones

Daily Prompt Love <3 Seeking Solace

26 July 2017

The world is in so much pain right now, so much anger, so much fear. If I am not mindful, that collective despair will weigh down on my back, settle ’round my shoulders like a yoke, until it chokes me, and I am become part of the problem, rather than doing what I think I should–choosing light, choosing peace, choosing Love–doing all that I can to be a force for compassion and Love in this world. So I have to make sure that I care for myself, body and spirit. I personally seek solace in the natural world, in my garden.

It reminds me, daily, that we are made not from our successes, but from the narrative of learning embodied in failure, every lush, red tomato now the product of years on my knees, learning, lessons gifted by seeds that did not germinate, rain that did not fall, soil that wasn’t ready, woodlings that wandered in and ate the fruit, reminders of my rent being due, for sharing this space.

Reward, and humility, in equal share, mistakes and losses, the cost of carelessness, the reminder that I own no space alone in my time on this planet, reside always in the garden. But even more, for me, in that small space, dwells possibility. Even in the darkest winter months, I imagine what will come, with spring. I find solace in the garden’s persistent gift, the imagining of an unimaginable future.

Make art about where you find solace. 

abundabce

Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 Titles, and Boundaries

23 July 2017

Make art using one of these titles: 

From the Stone Came

Listening to Fire

Salty and Wind and 

In Memory of Water

MMD4C2

24 July 2017 

Make art about boundaries, making them, breaking them, protecting them. 

do-not-cross

Daily Prompt Love <3 Letting Someone In

22 July 2017

Make art inspired by this:

let someone love you

 

 

Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Delusion, Pardon, and The Heat Made Me Do It

19 July 2017

Make art about self-deception, about deluding the self. 

self-deception-1

20 July 2017

Make art about pardons, the act of pardoning, about choosing to punish or forgive.

punish forgive pardon

21 July 2017

Experts have often drawn a correlation between heat and crime.

Make art about the emotional effects of extreme heat.

extreme heat

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