Nadia Daniels-Moehle
Another year is done. A new decade begins and, in the work of a second, one year hands its heft and weight to the next. At the stroke of midnight, my family strip off our socks, put on our most outrageous coats, and together we run around our house. As our bare feet scrape against…
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Hopeful Burning: Inspired by Jesmyn Ward’s Quote, “I burn, and I hope.” Ink on paper Just over one year ago “The Fire This Time”, a collection of essays and poems edited by author Jesmyn Ward, lit a fire within me. A fire kindled with just five words, “I burn, and I hope.” Just over one…
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She Found the Moment, and Together We Existed: Almost Inside: Emoting Final Part* Watercolor and gouache on paper Reverence washed over the room as Alice Walker took the stage. In the moments that followed, for time had turned into moments, Walker’s words filled up the space between everyone sitting beneath the high ceilings. In a…
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Organic Interbeing: Inspired by bell hooks’ Quote “interbeing and interdependency as the organic relationship of all living things”* Ink on paper When I first read bell hook’s writing, her words slipped past my fingers as the pages turned, her words seeped into me. Eleven words in hooks’ book The Will to Change reminded me that…
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Coincidental Inspiration by Way of Danger and Perspectives: Inspired by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Graphite on paper, animated The Creative Meanderings #7: Coincidental Inspiration by Way of Danger and Perspectives …art is like a coincidence, a place for perspectives to weave themselves together, to grow open in their difference. For the past 6,868 days or so,…
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Time Traveling Box and the Moonpit: Inspired by a Generous and Kind Woman and Audre Lorde’s poem “The Black Unicorn” India ink and watercolor on paper At the rummage sale that day, the kind and generous woman would never have known that she gave me the tools to time travel. Audre Lorde’s poem “The Black…
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