“I Wheeled With the Stars, My Heart Broke Loose on the Wind”
My creative process began with looking up the definition of “revolution” in the dictionary. Revolution and revolt share a common origin, both tracing back to the Latin “revolvere,” meaning “to revolve, roll back.” In the 14th century, “revolution” initially described the orbit of a celestial body, later expanding to include
The Unfinished American Revolution
The Unfinished American Revolution 4-11 Martha Ressler My idea was to use a small sampling of the political buttons I’d collected over many years of political activity to illustrate how the promise of the American revolution has fallen short and how realizing its promise has taken – is taking –
The Industrial Revolution
When I heard that “Revolution” was to be our next prompt, it filled me with too many options. It seems that there is always a revolution of some kind going on somewhere in the world. Cultural revolution, political revolution, Art revolution etc. I remembered stories that my Grandmother told about
The AI Revolution
More than 60 years ago, when television was still in black and white, the anime “Astro Boy” was very popular among children. Astro Boy is a human child-like robot that has gentle emotions and is equipped with so-called high-tech functions that allow it to make decisions with its own brain.
The Heart of America is Broken
For me, the crow is a symbol of revolution. Crows are often seen as omens of change and chaos. They are survivors- intelligent, adaptable and deeply connected to their communities. They recognize faces remember injustices, solve problems and even offer gifts to those who show them kindness. They are also
Wicked in the Worst Way
An adjective that can be used as a compliment, the word ‘wicked’ LITERALLY means evil or morally wrong. I have been disgusted daily with the actions of the USA’s current president and his wicked circle of appointees and supporters. My quilt includes symbols of greed, destruction, lies, and hatred displayed
Trigger Words
I don’t know what keeps you up at night, but I worry deeply are about the massive changes in our treasured constitutional democracy. It is the many changes of just about everything, but especially the subtle, -or not so subtle-, changes in our American English language. It started years ago
My Revolutionaries
We have talked about Revolution in terms of its meaning in the political sense and many of the revolutions that have occurred in modern history; the American, French, and Spanish. Elfrede has discussed the physical and mechanical type of revolution, being rotation. I wanted to explore a different type of
Revolutie vs Rotatie
Janine has already told us that Revolution and Rotation have a common origin in Latin. Jacque’s poignant opinion has opened the eyes of all of us, I think, to what is going on in America at the moment. At the time, we didn’t know anything about the terrible meeting
Peaceful Revolution?
When I think of revolution, most images are about rough and hard fighting, demonstrations, people being hurt, killed, murdered and general chaos. There are very few exceptions, although images and headlines of the time just before the fall of The Wall that separated West and East Germany swell up. Being
Revolution
In the US we are experiencing a radical revolution in our government. Some call it a coup, some call it the breakdown of democracy, some call it corruption, some call it a blatant funneling of taxpayer money to the rich. Meanwhile others call it draining the swamp, shutting down the
Language of the Fingertips
I was contemplating what to express with this prompt. Then I decided to learn about Braille.Interestingly, Braille was invented in 1824 by Louis Braille in France, based on military code system. Afterwards, his Braille system was widely spread throughout the world and become a writing system for People with visually