Ekphrasis: Art inspired by other Art- across forms

On-line People' s Choice Award for Ekphrasis 2022.

Dimensions: 19 x 38 x 27
About your piece:: The framework for this boat and the ladder are weeping willow branches. The casing of the boat is wet-felted fleece. The joints are copper wire. The stitching is black thread. Irish poet John O'Donohue's poem "Beannacht / Blessing" inspired me to create this piece to honour the heartbreaking life and recent death of a very old friend. I wanted to metaphorically give her a soft and gentle landing after living a long and challenging life. Listen to O'Donohue read his poem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRNjJ09T-VE while you view this piece.

Juror's Choice Award

Dimensions: 24 x 36 x 1
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About your piece:: This work is part of The Arrangements Series, inspired by flower bouquets, created to music. It is a Hybrid scanographic planograph using dye-sublimation on a metal floating frame.

Juror's Choice Award

Dimensions: 20 x 24 x 1.5
About your piece:: This digital print (photograph) on fibre was inspired by the writing of "The Dean of Western Writers", Wallace Stegner, with a soundtrack by the Tragically Hip.

Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.8
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About your piece:: Watercolour and ink on watercolour paper. This work is part of a series inspired by Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream story. In the story, the Taoist master writes how he dreamt of being a butterfly and upon waking realized he had been dreaming, but wondered if it could be that he was actually a butterfly dreaming of being Zhuangzi. The story speaks about the interdependence between the conscious and the unconscious as well as the processes of spiritual transformation. As a Cuban exile, the story resonated with my own history and that of my birth country. I use this piece to comment on Cuba's totalitarian state, where those who leave the country are called "gusanos" - meaning worms or caterpillars. But as we all know, caterpillars emerge from their cocoons and transform into butterflies, finding their freedom. While inspired in content by the Taoist master, the style of this watercolour and ink work channels Wassily Kandinsky's spiritual art.

Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1.5
About your piece:: Part of my "Little Black Dress" Series inspired by Audrey Hepburn in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Dimensions: 16 x 20 x 1.5
About your piece:: Part of my "Little Black Dress" Series inspired by Audrey Hepburn in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Dimensions: 20 x 10
About your piece:: Inspired by the poem The Lily Pad Pond by Pamela Storch

Dimensions: 30 x 24 x 1.5
About your piece:: Part of my "Little Black Dress" Series inspired by Audrey Hepburn in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Dimensions: 8 x 10
About your piece:: Inspired by the song Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell

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Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1.5
About your piece:: Generally, I paint from photographs I take. Reading about this show, and its meaning, inspired me to search my imagination to render a vision of William Wordsworth's poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".

Dimensions: 24 x 20
About your piece:: Inspired by Kendell Cochrane's poem, Tree of Life.

Dimensions: 20 x 16 x 0.5
About your piece:: My painting is inspired by the song Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. This song is special to me because my husband was scheduled to sing it at the JdF Christmas Concert 1999, but sadly got too sick and passed away before the performance. This was just before COVID. The attached verse was his special favourite.

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Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1.5
About your piece:: Inspired by the Tom Waits song, Hang On St. Christopher tells the story of a young man on a wild ride who asks the patron saint of travel to hang on because he's letting the devil take the wheel tonight.

Dimensions: 18 x 24 x 1.5
About your piece:: This was painted to Bob Dylan's song "When the Night comes falling from the sky" which I have always loved. Even though my interpretation of the song is that it is an ending of a relationship, I find the song energizing and powerful. The words seem angry but also motivating and the music is exhilarating.

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Dimensions: 24 x 36 x 1
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About your piece:: This work is part of The Arrangements Series, inspired by flower bouquets, created to music. It is a Hybrid scanographic planograph using dye-sublimation on a metal floating frame.

Dimensions: 24 x 36
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About your piece:: This work is part of The Arrangements Series, inspired by flower bouquets, created to music. It is a Hybrid scanographic planograph using dye-sublimation on a metal floating frame.

Dimensions: 49 x 68.5
About your piece:: This work offers a visual translation of a three-line comment by environmental author Rachel Carson, about the significance of our insignificance.

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Dimensions: 48 x 48
About your piece:: You Are the Sky (acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 48 x 48 in) is part of a studio project, Colourful Language, in which I create a colour-coded English alphabet to transcribe select quotes: words of inspiration, a joke, a scientific fact, a salty remark. My inspiration for this work is a quote from American Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön: “You are the sky. Everything else—it’s just the weather.”

Dimensions: 36 x 46 x 1.5
About your piece:: This painting is inspired by the poem of W.H. Auden “If I Could Tell You”. 1940. About the passage of time and the impossibility of knowing the future. About the impact of time on mankind and the confusion of one’s own mortality.

Dimensions: 17 x 3 x 4
About your piece:: I am inspired by the underwater photography of National Geographic photographer Stephane Granzotto whose photos brought to the world the understanding that sperm whales sleep en masse (the whole pod), hanging vertically in the water column, 5-15m under the water surface. These are just short, 15-30 minutes naps, and they only have a few a day. Sperm whales are the record holders for the mammals needing the least sleep. I find these pictures mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful. My Holy Whale I can be hung or it can sit on a table.