For this weekend's art collaboration, I am introducing Eli Edward Evangelidis, an illustrator and engraver from Sydney, Australia. Eli has kindly given permission for us to use his amazing piece,
'Beauty Forgotten in Survival's Eyes' (Pen and Ink. October 2018), for our poetic inspiration.
If you repost the image on your blog, please give attribution to Eli, using the following link:
https://www.instagram.com/eliedwardart/
Feel free to pay Eli a visit on Instagram, where more of his amazing pieces are to be viewed, but not used for this prompt.
If you post your poem on Instagram, using Eli's image, please tag @eliedwardart and mention him as the collaborative artist in your post.
There are no restrictions placed on this challenge: Let the image speak to you and respond in a poetic or prose form of your choosing:
Literal! Figurative! Reflective! Narrative! Symbolic!
As an alternative, you may write a Flash 55 inspired by the photograph, or on a subject of your choice, in memory of Galen, who first imagined this challenge.
'Beauty Forgotten in Survival's Eyes' (Pen and Ink. October 2018), for our poetic inspiration.
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| Eli Edward Evangelidis (2018) Used with Permission |
If you repost the image on your blog, please give attribution to Eli, using the following link:
https://www.instagram.com/eliedwardart/
Feel free to pay Eli a visit on Instagram, where more of his amazing pieces are to be viewed, but not used for this prompt.
If you post your poem on Instagram, using Eli's image, please tag @eliedwardart and mention him as the collaborative artist in your post.
There are no restrictions placed on this challenge: Let the image speak to you and respond in a poetic or prose form of your choosing:
Literal! Figurative! Reflective! Narrative! Symbolic!
As an alternative, you may write a Flash 55 inspired by the photograph, or on a subject of your choice, in memory of Galen, who first imagined this challenge.
I am very excited to be hosting this collaborative challenge! A big thanks to Eli for sharing his amazing art with us.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Kerry, for introducing me to Eli's art. I had a good look at all of his other work. This picture looks like those old-fashioned fairy-tale illustrations - with a twist.
ReplyDeleteThe fairy tale or maybe even Biblical motive worked for me tonight...
ReplyDeleteThank you Kerry! I let the image inspire me to write a short poetic fable of a “Beautiful Being”.
ReplyDeleteThis is a nice Art find, fun to write with. Thank you, Kerry.
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Whew - this was challenging for me. It s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d me. :) Thanks.
ReplyDeleteKerry, this one was an exercise on focus. When I glanced at the image, and knew I wanted to write about trees... and about snakes... and about daggers... and about fairy tales... and about gardens... I wrote 4 little stories (thank you for that). Then, finally, wrote a wee one about trees.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this prompt!
Eli's illustrations definitely evoke the fairytales books of my childhood. His is a dying art, I believe, and I am so grateful that we have been given the opportunity to write stories for it.
ReplyDeleteI would also like to convey Eli's thanks to all who have participated. He has visited your blogs and read your poems, and has been enthralled by the responses.
ReplyDeleteKerry- Thank you for introducing us to Eli's art. It's filled with so many storylines. Mine went dark. Yesterday, we went to visit a friend who is dying of cancer, so my emotions are conveyed through my words.
ReplyDeleteI went with what is happening to the US heartland..flood and tornadoes have devastated so much of the area where I grew up.
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