Wendy Brown Art
What will Sea Shore give?
Lobsters, crabs, urchins, mussels,
castles in the sand!
Definition:#370 Trick or Treat?
31 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in Trick or Treat? Tags: castles in the sand, crabs, lobsters, mussels, Trick or Treat?, urchins, Wendy Brown, What will sea shore give?
Definition #369 Bride of Frankenstein
30 Oct 2015 3 Comments
in Bride of Frankenstein Tags: bouffant hair, bridal blood bouquet, Bride of Frankenstein, electrodes hidden, Pizzic's illustration, scars N black-eyes
Pizzic’s
Bride of Frankenstein
bouffant hair, scars “n
black-eyes, electrodes hidden:
bridal blood bouquet.
Definition #368 Avoid Small Children
29 Oct 2015 1 Comment
in Avoid Young Children Tags: Annika Wild Eyed, Avoid Young Children, blank stares, Claire Keyes, fill their diapers, gaze at you, guilt is foreign, hoist them, manipulate the controls, pouches under your skin, slam the ivories, stomp the cat, the keys to joy
Annika Wild Eyed
You Should Avoid Young Children
by Claire Keyes
Because they fill their diapers
with reliable ease, sitting on your lap
or spread out on your best mattress.
Guilt is as foreign to them as vichyssoise.
Because they spread sticky fingers
over the piano keys, looking for you
to hoist them onto your lap. They slam
the ivories for the racket they can make.
Re-think your nap.
Because they are blank slates
on which so much waits to be written,
their eyes opened wide to take everything in,
including the lines around your eyes,
the pouches under your chin.
Because they manipulate the controls
on the TV, finger the holes in the electric socket,
stomp the cat’s switching tail only to smile
and gaze at you as if you held the keys to joy.
Because you can embrace them, but
you can’t bind them. Because they have nothing
to give you—and everything. Because
something loosens when they come around.
Something opens you didn’t know was shut.
“You Should Avoid Young Children” by Claire Keyes from What Diamonds Can Do. © Cherry Grove Collections, 2015.
Definition #367 Bear Moves
28 Oct 2015 2 Comments
in Bear Moves Tags: Bear Moves, belch it out, cannon blast, heave it up, hibernate, Huguette Pizzic, ready, wiggle round
Bears
by Huguette Pizzic
Heave it up; wiggle
round-belch it out- cannon blast!
ready:hibernate!
Definition #366 Picasso/Gaugin
27 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in Picasso/Gaugin Tags: chafing sound, cicadas, collages, crickets, flying, grasshoppers, Hostovsky, katydids, mantids, Picasso/Gaugin, the dust of everyday life
Pablo Picasso, who said, “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Paul Gaugin
he made hundreds of collages
of orthopterous insects—
katydids, mantids, cicadas,
crickets and grasshoppers
with long hind legs for jumping
or, you could say, flying;
and for making a rasping, chafing
sound or, you could say, song.
written by Paul Hostovsky
Definition #365 Color
26 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in Color Tags: 10-25-2015, color, faded sets of gray, left me bereft, Opera Othello, sunlight glances from my deck, yearning for some gold
sunlight glances from my deck 10-25-2015
Opera Othello’s
faded sets of gray left me bereft-
yearning for some gold.
Defintion #364 Harpist
25 Oct 2015 3 Comments
in Harpist Tags: 10-2015, feathers strings, Harpist, photo and color by Jeanne, plucking in our midst, rotates vibrations, winged harpist
Photo and color by Jeanne 10-2015
winged harpist feathers
strings to rotate vibrations
plucking in our midst!
Definition #363 Comic Character
24 Oct 2015 2 Comments
in Comic Character Tags: Ant as a Grandma, Comic Character, first comic strip, graphic novel, Jeanne's Designs of the Roller Skating Ant, multipaneled comic strips, Richard Outcault, single panel cartoons, The Roller Skating Ant, the Yellow Kid, wind skating
Jeanne’s designs of the Roller Skating Ant
Ant as a Grandma, wind-skating
It was on this day in 1897 that the first comic strip appeared in a newspaper. The strip, created by Richard Outcault, was published under different names but usually known by the name of its main character, the Yellow Kid. The Yellow Kid started appearing in single-panel cartoons in 1896, but on this day, it was first published as a multipaneled comic strip, titled “The Yellow Kid Takes a Hand at Golf.” Six panels showed the Yellow Kid’s mixed success at attempting to hit a golf ball. At the beginning he declares, “I am playing dis game an I don’t want no fresh mug te gimme any tips see,” and then he proceeds to knock out several bystanders with his golf club.
to see Jeanne’s graphic novel for free go to:
http://www.blurb.com/books/5669716-the-roller-skating-ant
Definition #362 Dad
23 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in Dad Tags: center-fold patriarch, Dad, Divenna's Dad, five years ago, sepia toned Dad, turned "spirit moving muse"
Divenna’s Dad
Sepia toned Dad
center-fold patriarch turned
“spirit moving muse”
Definition #361 Carried Away
22 Oct 2015 3 Comments
in Carried Away Tags: Carried Away, critic, Doris Lessing, falls in love, great pleasures in my life, imagine, rush of a river, self-caricature, sheer bloody presure, writing
self-caricature by Jeanne
Doris Lessing said,
“A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
A critic looks at the finished product and ignores the rush of a river that went into the writing,
which has nothing to do with the kind of temperate thoughts you have about it.
If you can imagine the sheer bloody pleasure of having an idea and taking it!
It’s one of the great pleasures in my life.”
The Vibrant Channeled Creator 