✨🎧 Did you pick up the phone?

“…what song unheard, what melody strange?…”

Did you hear? Last Sunday (about a day’s walk from here) a mysterious telephone appeared in the middle of nowhere…

Travelers from all directions, burning questions in their hearts, journeyed to this holy apparition to pick up the receiver…and listen for answers from the Oracle Line.

My sketchbook after last Sunday’s live Creative Jam in which we responded to this audio.

☎️ Earlier this year, I asked you to call the Oracle Line to read your poetry from our live gatherings and in response to the weekly creative prompts. And, much to my delight, YOU DID!

Here are all 5 Oracle Line audio transmissions- made with your voices!- that we listened to in last Sunday’s live Creative Jam.

My prompt for you?

Pull out your sketchbook, plug in your headphones & leap in! What springs to life in your mind’s eye?

(*This is a highly hypnotic 7+ minutes of audio! Maybe it’s best not to operate any forklifts or table saws while you’re vibin’…*)

More drawings and notes from our live session with the Oracle audio…

“…a perspective of belonging…”

“…poised in liminality…”

“…an umbilical cord to the garden/ ARTISTS BEWARE…”

✨Thank you, sweet & generous travelers, for sharing your unique visions & voices with the Oracle:

Erika Joy, John Raux, Neon McGraw, Brittney Monster, Lisette Murphy, Miles Seiden

Next week: Curious about how I make these soundscapes? I’ll share a process deep-dive that goes behind the scenes on these audio journeys (it involves a lot of random chance, a dose of theatre game…and…a drainage ditch down by the river…)

Have you written in response to Image Word Mystery prompts? Paid members can call & contribute your voice to this magically evolving landscape…you never know where it will pop up next.

❤️ Process notes & live creative gatherings are supported by your paid membership. Which is to say: I am supported by you. My art is supported by you. Thank you so much for connecting with me and my work.

xo,

(The poem I wrote during last Sunday’s live Creative Jam)

PS: There will be no live gatherings in August— My work schedule is thrumming, my stepson is visiting and there is much adventuring to be adventured while summer is still summering! I’ll see you here in the meantime.❤️

Are you doing anything fun this month? What’s on your must-do-before-summer-ends list? (I still need to sit my ass in an inner tube and float a few miles down a river!!! 🛟)