Ready by Julia Gordon-Bramer
Dec27

Ready by Julia Gordon-Bramer

  “Ready” by Julia Gordon-Bramer   Everything I have done until this point, from birth through this fifty-five years, has been training, my practicum, for what I am about to become. That was the old caterpillar and chrysalis. Now, I rip open the cocoon and spread my wet wings. I am the culmination of all I was. I am bigger than inspiration because now I am doing the dream. No one has to witness my flight for it...

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Reverie by Sumner Crenshaw
Dec27

Reverie by Sumner Crenshaw

  “Reverie” by Sumner Crenshaw     ____________________ Share your response to this work, in any form, here   Sumner Crenshaw Artist Statement: Summer Crenshaw’s artwork is a narrative blend of abstraction and surrealism, imbued with lines and movement. Hopscotching between genres, Ms.Crenshaw’s work draws on a variety of artistic influences, from Salvador Dali to Shel Silverstein. Ms.Crenshaw earned...

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The Q | A World of Our Own Making
Dec11

The Q | A World of Our Own Making

  A World of Our Own Making Q: How does our act of creation challenge our reality?*Responses will be curated and may be shared with permission.Permission* Yes, I give my permission Show Full AgreementBy submitting your response, you are granting AROHO permission for possible publication – in whole or excerpts – in WAVES, which is also archived on our website and may be shared on social platforms.Name* First Last Address* State /...

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Witness
Nov29

Witness

  If I didn’t have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist. Annie Leibovitz   Submit Your Art and Writing to WAVES       “HOME/Violet” by Marianne Murdock   This work is about: Watercolor of a woman done a long time ago. I now know that I was painting my grandmother, whose home I was...

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Text Painting of The Wild Geese, Mary Oliver’s Poem by Nancy Cassell
Nov29

Text Painting of The Wild Geese, Mary Oliver’s Poem by Nancy Cassell

  “Text Painting of The Wild Geese, Mary Oliver’s Poem” by Nancy Cassell     ____________________ Share your response to this work, in any form, here   Nancy Cassell Artist Statement: Nancy Fletcher Cassell is a visual artist and writer. Her poems have appeared in Water- Stone Review (finalist Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize), Heartland Review (finalist, Joy Bale Boone poetry Award), Bigger Than They...

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