A Clearing in the Waves
_________________________________________________________ For every truth told, how many go unspoken? … I wanted to make of these pages a book that would split open whatever parts of the world it might touch. Waves: A Confluence of Women’s Voices, Editor’s Note, Diane Gilliam “A Clearing in the Waves” by Anonymous _________________________________________________________ . . ....
Blue Wave by Diane Sanborn
“Blue Wave” by Diane Sanborn As a creative woman, I define my creative identity in the following way: After many years of painting, I have learned to engage myself in a conversation with my work and to visually listen to what the painting is telling me. Over the years I have acquired a data bank of visual information that never sleeps. When I work, I hear the voices of instructors that were genuinely...
Maxine by Sun Cooper
“Maxine” by Sun Cooper ____________________ Share your response to this work, in any form, here Sun Cooper Artist Statement: Sun Cooper has been in AROHO community since 2015 and served five years as WAVES editor and Fire Heart Sister. Prior, she was named AROHO’s Blackbird Fellow and attended the writer’s retreat at Ghost Ranch where she first found sisterhood in the world of arts...
Leave the Barren Fields by Mary Morris
“Leave the Barren Fields” by Mary Morris Enter water, swimmer. Touch the muddy floor. Reappear dripping to be born for this. Cover the body with honey on the night of a new moon. Gather and eat soft eggs of a raven, drink milk from a goat by noon. Awaken at midnight feedings. Draw the ovaries. Paint in panthers, ruby-lit flowers. Gather your voice at the river. Sing with the loon. Read Grimm’s fairy...
A Space Beyond Boundaries
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being. All About Love by bell hooks “The Shore” by Anonymous _________________________________________________________ OUR INVITATION . . . Dear Sister Artist, Writer, Reader, Please accept our invitation to a buoyant celebration of the completed publication of Waves: A Confluence of Women’s Voices, A Room of Her Own’s digital anthology....
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