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Candace’s Explanation for her Lonely Artist piece

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This is her completed piece

Thank you Judy Dykstra-Brown, this challenge came at the beginning of the quarantine , if approached now, it would be a totally different outcome. It was a fun silly project, making me miss our lovely art group. We had such fun creating art and community. Judy called several artist to see if they were up for the challenge. We each cleaned out our art supplies, which usally consist of lots of recycled oddities. Leftover collecting practices I guess for me, of being a preschool Director/teacher collecting items for art projects. Which in turns, contributes to me being a mixed media artist. Each artist who participated in this challenge, shared their collective art stash with the other artist. We then were to come up with some piece of art out of those items. This challenge came durning the time I learned my beautiful cousin became ill and hospitalized, being placed on a ventilator. No, she didn’t have the virus, but a heart condition. Her family could not visit her, because of hospital rules during the virus. This project helped me durning this time, making it was a mindless creative outlet, I would hum to myself, Simon and Garfunkel’s song, “Rosie, Queen of Corona” thinking of Debby as I created, willing Debby to breath on her own. It’s a silly piece of art, no museum piece. Nor will it last the ages, but a simple diversion of what was going on in the world. My beautiful cousin lost her life, on the eve of Mother’s Day. She left behind a husband, two children, two grandchildren, a brother, and her sweet mother, and many many extended family members who loved her. My heart still hurts over this. No, this art does not reflect Debby, but the process has a memory of keeping her in prayer durning her last days. My heart still hurts that she is no longer with us.

Here is Debby’s photo with her husband when they were younger.

HERE is my original blog with Candace’s piece in it. To see more closeups of her piece, go to that blog.

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Color Your World Orchid

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Yellow and Purple
Purple Thunbergia
Bruised Heart

I tried so hard to find something orchid that was not a flower, but didn’t do a very good job of it!! Click on photos to enlarge.

For Tourmaline’s Color Your World Prompt

River Travelers

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River Travelers

They know this river, know it well.
Daily, they bring their fruit to sell.
We, who find the river strange
reach out our bills as we lack change,
for what they’ve brought to us from shore.
They hand out more and more and more
to strangers whom they must find dense
to give them such great recompense
for what God has amply provided.
All their village has derided
those who float by in big boats,
holding out their ten sol notes
that would buy every bunch they carry.
They wonder why we do not  tarry
for our change after we pay.
Silent, they watch us float away.
The baby held in mother’s arms
does not know what nearby harms
lurk beneath the water’s cloak—
the jaws that snap, the water’s soak.
But we know what small guarantee
exists in lives of poverty.
Rubbed raw, perhaps, by all we have,
our generosity is salve.

 

For dVerse Poets: Boats

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

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Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

If you want my love, dear, you’ve got to give me space.
Love’s so much more likely when not always face-to-face.
Even the paranormal works better when the fright
occurs when not expected instead of every night.

That familiarity breeds contempt is not, dear, mere codswallop!
Love is more exciting when taken as a dollop.
How many great love stories were romantic interlude—
those long-remembered periods when we were briefly wooed?

Love can be a lifelong trip or one terrific bash
where two bodies crash together and then burn away to ash.
The bodies that are left to us may then be wooed and married,
the memory of past flaming passions sealed away and buried.

But in a vault within us, those past interludes are kept,
and now and then the present they are bound to intercept.
They do not rival constancy—that lasting love or marriage
that is the coach that carries us. They’re just the undercarriage.

But that daily diet that regularly nourishes
cannot but be improved upon with a few spicy flourishes.
Like an appetite that grows the stronger with the fasting,
love delayed may well make even married love more lasting.

 

Just for the fun of it this time, I decided to look up one prompt word at a time and write a couplet that contained it before looking up the next word, then do the same each time. So much fun. I always say I rarely know where a poem is going until I finish it, but this time is the proof of it! I didn’t know from couplet to couplet where it was going.

Sam found THIS POEM that bears a remarkable resemblance to the poem above. I guess when I start repeating myself, it is time to stop. I had no memory of writing this poem. Guess it is time to start worrying as well.

Words of the day are space, paranormal, codswallop, interlude and crash.

Monochrome Images

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We were to capture images that incorporated a number of shades of one color in a photo for Jude’s photo assignment number 32 Monochromatic Images,

Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Carvings, Sculptures and Statues

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Marble, Mexico
Detail from Church, Ocotlan, Oaxaca
Molded leather centerpiece for one of my retablos.
Chapala, Mx, Clay
Bronze, Guanajuato, MX
Bronze, India
Clay, Mexico
Clay, Mexico
Painted wood church sculpture, Michoacan
Cantera marble, Tonala, MX, my backyard!
Cantera Marble, Chapala–My front yard!
Bronze, Mexico
Lady Liberty, bronze, New York Harbor
Clay, Mexico
Nacimientos, Mexico, painted clay.
Virgin of Guadalupe, wood, Michoacan

Yes, I did get a bit carried away. Some of these definitely need to be enlarged. Just click on them!

Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Carvings, sculptures and statues

Fatal Persuasion

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Fatal Persuasion

Don’t ruffle up your pinions as though I’m about to strike.
Although my bite is lethal, I am kind to those I like.
They say in certain circles that I am quite a catch,
and I await you at your doorway. Just open up the latch.

 

 

Word prompts today are catch, pinion, strike,

“Rosie, Queen of Corona” Candace Spence’s Contribution to the Lonely Artist Covid Challenge

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The challenge to create an art piece about their Coronavirus experience went out to a number of artists. All of us who lived in the Lake Chapala area were given a box of ingredients to start us off. We could use as many of them as we wished and add whatever ingredients we wanted to. To see the original challenge and items each of us received for the Lonely Artist Covid Challenge, go HERE. If you want to joint in on the challenge, send links to your blog or photos of your project to this blog.

Click on the first photo and then the arrows to enlarge photos and read commentary.

One of the objects given to everyone was a cardboard catfood box. Candace made hers into a retablo box. Clever.
“Rosie, Queen of Corona”
Someone contributed a number of swatches of different material.. and a bottle full of buttons. Someone else gave us all google eyes. Here’s a closeup of Candace’s clever use of all of these elements.
You’ll notice these wine corks in all of our pieces, as well.
We all also received these joker cards.

To see Candace’s comments about her piece, go HERE. To see other contributions to this project go HERE. I’ll put links to all other contributions there as well, as they come in.

Christians Making Atheists

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