Insecure Writer's Support Group
Are you a risk-taker when writing? Do you
try something radically different in style/POV/etc. or add controversial topics
to your work?
The Answer
I'd like to think so. I know that formula writing goes against my grain. Mostly, though, I just write what I like to read. And as an avid reader, I read everything. I find it hard to understand limits, but many have refused to read my work because of the subject.
Still, to each his own...I write for the love of writing and because I have something to say.
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Be sure to say hello!
Freedom Morning is a watercolor by Claude Clark, the African American artist, and art educator painted in 1941.
“As a child in the churches, the schools, and the community, I dreamed of a destiny. My search became a single purpose for the dignity of Black Americans.”
Claude Clark was born in Georgia in 1915. His art characterizes the African American diaspora experience. He faced prejudice, poverty, and racism but did not allow these to deter him. He mixed his own paints from the trashed tubes in art schools. When he could not afford the expensive brushes and cleaning agents, he developed his unique technique with the palette knife. Read more about his remarkable life here.
The
interpretation of art (and prompts!) is in the eye of the beholder, and this
artwork is rich with possibilities.
Will you let Freedom Morning spark a flash of hope for a systematically suppressed character?
Will someone break free - of chains, of the past, of a closed mindset - after years of living with them?
Or maybe someone will watch a brand-new sunrise and decide to start life afresh? Rise to a challenge? :) Overcome a hardship?
Take
the artwork as a whole or in part and seed that into imagination. Your canvas
is unlimited.
Thank you, Nila!
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