Articles from the ‘Creative Responses’ collection

Remembering Lakes

By Madelyn Biven It’s beautiful chopped.   Your skin when we met was lettuce green, cabbage white.  Everything we ate, we became.  I always believed sun thirsted for your hazel, that’s why I lit candles close to you before day woke up, to see your hair drop into your mouth.  […]

August 23, 2012  |  Read Article

Photographer Gregory Bartning

“Dance is the language of movement. It is the visual communication and expression of our dreams, thoughts and perceptions.   As a still photographer, I constantly struggle with how to convey a sense of motion with a single image. This current project melds several images into one, in an effort to accurately portray […]

August 16, 2012  |  Read Article

Measure The Music: J.S. Bach’s 1st Lute Suite BWV 996

By Jake Padilla The 4th Measure of the Allemande in J.S. Bach’s 1st Lute suite BWV 996: Road trips! Listening to Bach is often like traveling the lonely road. You’re always a little anxious as you’re left in the web of your own thoughts. But as nomadic instinct carries you […]

August 6, 2012  |  Read Article

A Study of Flight

Painting and poetry by Julia Cost   I have flown through the night since I was small. My flight is a breaststroke through the sky It takes just a few powerful strokes to soar for miles I skim over trees, leaves brushing my belly I rush low over the surface […]

July 30, 2012  |  Read Article