The Q | a ping (or whalesong)
a ping (or whalesong) Q: What is your ping, your whalesong?*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 / Province / Region...
Word is Touch
Here, we hold a space for each other where we allow our inner voice to have the floor where BEYOND is our brief where the water holds our stories and the WAVES lift them up WAVES ALIVE this April 12 | June 14 | August 8-9 | October 11 | December 6-7 _________________________________________________________ My creative intentions are to share my explorations, attempts and hopes with sister explorers,...
Waves of Snow by Holly Guran
“Waves of Snow” by Holly Guran for Danielle Legros Georges The light reveals some tracks out back on dunes of ice—rabbits, squirrels, or the coydog glimpsed next door who slipped so fast below our sight. I want their marks to mean my friend has sent her love to all of us who walked with her. A death too soon, and still too new. A poet who could melt the mounds of ice with sound— her self, her...
Button Your Lip by Mimm Patterson
“Button Your Lip” by Mimm Patterson ____________________ Share your response to this work, in any form, here Mimm Patterson Artist Statement: I am a writer and a visual artist. Writing is how I compartmentalize the moments in my life that have shaped me. Visual art is how I tell the stories of my life when words cannot. Writing, for me, is ordered, like the card catalogue we used in our high...
Available Light by Sandy Coomer
“Available Light” by Sandy Coomer I’ve come to the lake to take pictures, capture first light lifting off water, an image that is more than the muted colors of a somber morning, a world worn dull with sorrow. It’s hard to find a reason to smile when all around me the edges of the good...
Unbreakable Spirit by Tina Ferguson
“Unbreakable Spirit” by Tina Ferguson What does my art mean to me: Through good times and recent hardships, art has been my therapy and my voice, allowing me to communicate emotions that words cannot capture. It is my passion, my refuge, and my way of making a meaningful impact in the world. Art saved my life. ____________________ Share your response to this work, in any form, here Tina...
The Q | Word is Touch
Word is Touch Q: If your work was a being, how would it feel to cradle it in your arms? What does it mean to touch what you've made? Can you? How would you? What might change if you did?*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...
Entering the Clearing
To say I was an artist took a lot. Betye Saar … I went in search of the secret that has fed that muzzled and often mutilated, but vibrant, creative spirit that the black woman has inherited and that pops out in wild and unlikely places . . . . Alice Walker _________________________________________________________ WAVES is our generative source, steady and ongoing call to each...
Scribbling Song by Sandra Inskeep-Fox
“Scribbling Song” by Sandra Inskeep-Fox The scribbling becomes my song: harmonious Scratching of pen on paper, The ink swelling into a picture: Black, bubbling, oneristic voice Whispering “Holy, holy, holy.” Harmony of memory &...
The Q | Entering the Clearing
Entering the Clearing Q: How do you clear space in spirit and in life for your work?*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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