From the MMA’s website: The 95th Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition continues a rich legacy of showcasing the work of Michigan artists, from talented beginners to accomplished professionals. A competitive show, the Michigan Contemporary presents a look at the issues, themes, and materials inspiring today’s Michigan artists. Featured media include painting, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, textiles,…
Author: Lisa or Li
mother, grandmother, gardener, observer of nature, reader, writer, learner, bicyclist, woman who runs with the wolves, lover of music, philosophical daoist. Welcome.
POPO2024 Day 41
First day’s a fluke, but the fluke’sbeen here 3 days, which meansit’s a new way. Eighties left in dust.Hello sixties, my friend.Real air washes through windows,across my skin, into my lungs.I can breathe soft and easy again.
POPO2024 Day 40
slaying the beastI needed to know my weight.Why doesn’t matter.The digital scale’s 9v was dead,which shows how long it’s beensince I faced the horror of the beast.When oooo marched across screenagain, I clenched my jaw, imaginedmyself as a cloud – and stepped on.Twenty-seven pounds … less.Body dysmorphia is a bitch, but today this bitch put…
TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge — Paradise (tanka puente)
Paradisegold light envelopspulses flesh in its rightnesspatience rewardedoblivious beyond heatinevitable ashes~Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.~ reality riselike bile from a sucker punchcurled in a sick bedtear-soaked pillow, remembersonly the shiny apple top image: “APPLES OF EDEN” by Aurika Piliponiene. Bridge quote is from Chuck Palahniuk, from his novel, “Choke.”…
#FF — What’s left is the waiting
PHOTO PROMPT © MrBinks What’s left is the waiting “Harold!” Harold startles from his reverie. “Time for dinner!,” calls his mother, expecting to repeat her announcement before he flutters down the stairs to join the family for crushed corn and mealworms. Harold is what some call a dreamer. When they ask him, “what’s going on…
POPO2024 Day 39
The rooftop garden has paved pathways, sculptures, ground covers, grasses,water beds for lotus and lily,and bog beds for pitcher plants.The scent of dead, tricked bugsdraws big, black robber waspswho brace their back legs atthe curve of pitcher plant mouthsand try to pluck out dissolvingcorpses without falling in.https://www.meijergardens.org
POPO2024 Day 38
I bought a painting of a bridge.Attached to it are many silky,synchronous threads.Not knowing where to hang itat first, the entryway presentedas perfect; as a portal betweenworlds, to be traversed again and again.
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