Writing prompt #112: EKPHRASIS

Hi Everyone,

Here’s a concept that may be helpful to you in creating fresh, unexpected work: ekphrasis.

Definition: The word ekphrasis, or ecphrasis, comes from the Greek for the written description of a work of art produced as a rhetorical or literary exercise, often used in the adjectival form ekphrastic. It is a vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a visual work of art, either real or imagined.

YOUR PROMPT: Use the image below (borrowed from The Ekphrastic Review) as a springboard for your own writing. Your response can be as long or short as you wish, direct or oblique, a jumping off point into the specificity of your creative world.

Or feel free to choose your own arresting image.

Enjoy!

Abrazos,

Cristina