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...
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...
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 /...
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...
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...