Saturday Poetry – ‘The Poem is a Dream Telling you it’s Time’ by Marwa Helal
This week’s Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘The Poem is a Dream Telling you it’s Time’ by Marwa Helal. This poem uses syntax to explore simultaneous fields of thought and existence. It also reflects on how poems are a tool of both transformation and travel through time and space. The practice of poem-making results in its own and new form(s), and, if successful, includes the changing and transport of both the writer and reader. I have matched mobile art by @sandarroch with this poem, entitled ‘Morning Sky Painting’. If you would like to be featured in our Saturday Poetry section, please ensure you include the hashtag #theappwhisperer…
Saturday Poetry – ‘Heart to Heart’ Rita Dove
Saturday Poetry This week’s Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Heart to Heart’ by Rita Dove. The author of numerous collections of poetry, Rita Dove served as the US Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995 and as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2005 to 2011. She explained, “how to find words for the human heart and all the emotions we ascribe to it? The path is a veritable minefield of clichés—those well-intentioned, once-fresh expressions whose very popularity has rendered them useless, even laughable. I decided to take these tired metaphors and deconstruct their camouflage until all that remains is the true ‘heart’ of the…
Saturday Poetry – Below Zero by Jay Parini
Saturday Poetry This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Below Zero” by Jay Parini. He has published multiple collections of poetry, as well as novels, biographies and academic texts. He has received honorary degrees from Lafayette College and the University of Scranton and fellowships from Christ Church at Oxford University, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the School of Advanced Study (Institute of English Studies) at the University of London. I have matched mobile art by @bigganvi – Birgitta Sjöstedt entitled – ‘Mysterious’ To view her Instagram account please go here. If you would like to be featured in our Saturday Poetry section, please ensure you include the hashtag…
Saturday Poetry – A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down by Emily Pittinos
Saturday Poetry This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down’ by Emily Pittinos. She is a poet, author, and winner of the 2020 Iowa Poetry Prize. The recipient of a 2022 literature fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, she is a visiting lecturer in creative writing at Boise State University in Boise, where she lives. I have matched mobile art by @debergenseboekenkast entitled ‘We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. Ernest Hemingway A moveable feast’. To view her Instagram account please go here. If you would…
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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr Group Showcase – 12 December 2021
This is a magnificent showcase, pulsatingly alive and beautifully displayed, it reinforces my opinion that there are few artists out there with the dexterity or emotional intelligence to rival that of the mobile artists displayed here. If you would like your work to be considered for entry into our weekly Mobile Photography and Art Flickr showcase, please submit it to our dedicated group, here. Alternatively if you’re an Instagram user just tag your images with #theappwhisperer and we’ll pick you up. Many congratulations to the following artists for being featured this week: Susan Detroy, Rita Colantonio, Don Ferber, Susan Maxwell Schmidt, anandamoy chatterji, Jun Yamaguchi, Clint Cline, Fille.de.Lumière, Vadim Demyanov, Gianluca Ricoveri, Alexander…
Staycations are Back – Where Will You Go?
The Spring Bank Holiday weekend is near and no doubt front of mind for many UK residents in search of somewhere new to explore. The UK is a nation that has been changed forever following over a year of restrictions, with 61% agreeing that they will no longer take leaving their local area for granted. It’s no surprise that with restrictions gradually easing in the UK that staycations are on the horizon, over half (57%) of Brits are gearing up to leave their hometown and visit their favourite UK spots this summer. With the next bank holiday weekend only weeks away, Samsung has revealed 21 epic UK destinations that the…
Mobile Photography & Art Flickr and Instagram Showcase – 21 March 2021
Marcel Proust describes, In Search of Lost Time, his own experiences of ‘involuntary memories‘, these are profound and unexpected glimpses of the past triggered by mundane and everyday experiences. Escaping time, is in essence the affect of ‘involuntary memories‘, they return us to past events. Photography, is the perfect medium to use as the physical connection to illustrate and explore this. Susan Sontag pronounced that, all photographs are memento mori, to take a photograph is to participate in another persons (or things) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt. (Sontag, 1979: 15). According to Roland Barthes photographs…
Mobile Photography/Art #tawselfie Challenge
You may recall our recent Sunday Showcase post where we discussed Rembrandt’s first self portrait compared with another, thirty years apart. We also touched on ‘selfies’ today. If you did not read it, please go here. Today, we are launching our new mobile photography and art challenge. We would like you to post one selfie to Instagram with this hashtag #tawselfie but within the caption, please state how many you took before deciding to post the one that you have done, this is imperative to be included within this challenge. Please take a look at Catherine Caddigan’s image below with caption ‘after eight selfies’. We’ll publish a showcase of these…
Mobile Photography & Art Flickr and Instagram Showcase – 20 December 2020
This weeks mobile photography and art showcase is a narrative on life and for many of us, life right now does not offer the freedom it once did… Freedom seems like a luxury, one we all took for granted. What connects people in this showcase and our community of artists is the ability to express ourselves in the ways we most discern, through our art and we keep at it. The sheer ingenuity that you will view today is elegant and strong, engaging and questioning each piece created by independent minds producing compelling artistry. Enjoy. Thank you to all the talented artists for submitting your works to our showcase this week. If…
