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...
Where Did the Wild Girls Go by B Story
“Where Did the Wild Girls Go” by B Story Each woman is born Mother Moon To a tribe of wild girls Who live in the forest between her ribs. They scratch and fight and swim. They swallow sunrises whole, Befriend the wolves, Sleep with their spines Curved along branches, Their feet dangling, And never fear the fall. They live to tear up the world. Where do our wild girls go? When did the forest grow still? He...
Seahorse (excerpt) by Myrna Greenfield
“Seahorse (excerpt)” by Myrna Greenfield As a child, I watched as he slithered into the Atlantic, his crawl accentuated by the high fly of his arms, an easy draw of the sea in his wake. The farther out he went, the quicker my heart beat. He would switch to a float, his body bobbing on his salted bed. I squinted into the Brooklyn sun and fixed my sights on the crown of his head, that tiny, bald spot, as he...
Women at the Center by Dorit Netzer
“Women at the Center” by Dorit Netzer This work is about: In 1995-1996 I was an art therapy intern and researcher at a women’s center, where I dedicated my time to facilitating self-reflective creative expression with groups of women, who struggled with challenging life transitions. This collection of portraits, taken from my journal, is brought together 20 years later to acknowledge the courage...
Creative Legacy by Mary Potter Kenyon
“Creative Legacy” by Mary Potter Kenyon In Madeleine L’Engle’s A Circle of Quiet, the author chronicles a period of angst in her writing life. She’d hit a dry spell for sales of her work in her thirties. She was looking forward to her fortieth birthday, certain that a new decade would bring about writing success. It plagued her that she’d spent a great deal of time writing without pulling her own weight...
HOME/Violet by Marianne Murdock
“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 in at the time, long after she died. ____________________ Share your response to this work, in any form, here Marianne Murdock Artist Statement: Born in Washington, D.C. in 1953, Marianne Murdock has always been a creative being,...
Witness in Your Art
Witness The Q: How does the experience of seeing and being seen manifest in your art?*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*...
Ritual
… Habits gradually change the face of one’s life as time changes one’s physical face; & one does not know it. Virginia Woolf Submit Your Art and Writing to WAVES “Works and Days” by Tanja Markus In sum, this work is about: Inspired by the Bosch’s outer panels of “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” “Works and Days” transforms the depiction of the creation of...
Works and Days by Tanja Markus
“Works and Days” by Tanja Markus In sum, this work is about: Inspired by the Bosch’s outer panels of “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” “Works and Days” transforms the depiction of the creation of the world into the metaphor of contemporary accomplishments of humanity, which, lobotomized by the principles of market mechanics, has lost its spirituality and its rituals. ...
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