fotoplay : invitational

It is no longer December, and it is no longer the “holiday season.” As I wrote in an earlier post, I have been surprised, inspired, and sometimes bewildered by what has come to me in response to my December Fotoplay card. But all things must indeed come to some kind of an end, so I am going to break from posting about work related to this project, and any new work that is sent to me hereafter, I’ll post next December. After writing about yesterday’s collage of tears, this feels like the perfect moment to let the project go…

As with all creative processes, this experience has led me into realms both unexpected and mystifying. I’m reminded of a favorite quote by Rainer Maria Rilke:

Things aren’t all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.
~ from “Letters to a Young Poet”

In the spirit of this quote, a new project has come to life: I have contacted some of the people who created December Fotoplay work, and invited them to create work in response to a new Fotoplay prompt, which I will mail out in a few days. I look forward to seeing what my friends will create next, and I also look forward to writing about a new collection of Fotoplay-inspired art.