1 Day Remains
A continuation of my #last100days2023 project
Welcome to my #last100dayproject!
What will you do with the remaining 1 day of 2023?
What will you do with your 100 day creations?
What did you learn from this exercise? What was the best part? What will you continue?
Have you been with me from the beginning or did you join along the way? I would love to hear in the comments.
Today’s prompt:
What image or memory comes to mind when you think of “art”?
The art of life.
Sculpture, paintings, ceramics, calligraphy, conversation, collage…
What interests you?
What do you need to refresh for yourself? Take a trip to an art museum, look up your favorite art online, pull down those books on the top shelf?
Write about what art you love and why you connect with it. Surreal? Pointalism? Abstrast? Doodles? Sketch?
What art do you need today?
I invite you to search your notebooks and drives for the prompt word and see what drafts you have that you can resurrect and revise.
What will you write today?
A list
A metaphor
A memory
One sentence
A conversation imagined between you and a stranger
Whatever you choose - have fun!
Happy writing!
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A little more about me: Tammy L. Evans is a writer, teacher, and coach living in a tiny house on a peninsula with her husband and adventure cat. Her location device is her loud laugh. She is working on a non-fiction book about how to submit and publish your first pieces. She is the creator and host of THE BRADBURY TRIO COURSE. Her poetry has been published in The Storyteller, FoxGlove Journal, Story Hall, Blue Insights, The Partnered Pen, and others. Her fiction has been published in Gone Lawn, South Florida Poetry Journal, Cabinets of Heed, Spelk, Five on the Fifth, Clover and White, Fiction Berlin Kitchen, and others.
Hi Tammy, congrats on reaching this century of days, I have enjoyed reading your curations. All the very best with your next project during the year about to be born. Peace, M.aurice
"I DID IT MY WAY"
An 'accidental' art memory.
I've just recently entered double digits as far as age goes, and I'm on a school field trip in a pine forest in South Africa in the 80s. The smell of pine resin is strong. It's a wonderful smell that makes me think of all things yellow and sunny. I'm sneezing a lot, but I don't mind. The crunch of pine needles underfoot and the occasional thunk of a pine cone falling to the ground are the only sounds of nature we can hear.
Our task is to fill a small glass bottle with layers of colorful sand. It's a competition to see who can make the prettiest bottle of wavy sand. I knock my bottle over during one of my sneezing fits and am about to throw it away when I notice something amazing. The wavy horizontal lines I created up to the halfway mark are now vertical. It's like magic! I decide to go with the flow, tilting my bottle this way and that until I'd filled it to the brim. I screwed the lid on tight and wrote my name as neatly as possible. Nobody else figured out how to make their lines go vertical like mine. I won the challenge.
Now, the exhilaration I felt in creating a unique piece of art wasn't because I won the challenge, but because I was open to making mistakes and letting the accident influence the art. I made a mistake that I thought was going to ruin the art I was trying to make. But that beautiful mistake showed me that I could make art in my own way. I could enjoy the process of making art as much as the finished product.
That one powerful memory is the core of what I believe art is about for me: the process of creation is as important as the product created, however ephemeral or permanent it may be. I am endlessly fascinated by how artists make their art, how writers write their writings, how composers and choreographers compose and choreograph their work.