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Photo.net Monthly ProjectNovember 2009


Pioneers O' Pioneers

Come my tan-faced children,
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready,
Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes?
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Inspiration for art can come from many places and perhaps one of the most overlooked of those places is other art. But music, paintings, theater and literature has been inspiring us in one for or another for years upon years now. This month why not find inspiration in the written work. Find a sentence or a phrase or a stanza that speaks to you and create an image around it.

Need a place to start? Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is wildly credited as one of the pillars of the poetic world and "Pioneers O' Pioneers" is filled with all sorts of linguistic imagery. You can read all the Leaves of Grass poems right here courtesy of Princeton University.

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Article created November 2009