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Haiku Prelude – Haiku Kami

Series ‘Haiku Prelude – Haiku Kami’, 2010-2011

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but the inward significance.” – Aristotle

My project ‘Haiku Prelude – Haiku Kami’ is inspired by traditional and contemporary Japanese and western haiku. The project aims to portray each haiku poem and embody its visual energy.

The project follow the idea described by the poet Ezra Pound in the note about the moment, which he later materialised into one of his famous haiku ‘Metro’. He said: ‘That evening, in the Rue Raynouard, I realised quite vividly that if I were a painter, or if I had, often, that kind of emotion, or even if I had the energy to get paints and brushes and keep at it, I might found a new school of painting, of “non-representative” painting, a painting that would speak only by arrangements in colour.’ His initial enthusiasm led up to the poets movement called ‘Imagism’.

The technique of the project is adopted from the painter Jaroslaw Kobylkiewicz who is responsible for originating this particular style.

Each image of the project aims to catch the whole perfect moment of haiku. What is happening in between the individual and the world at that moment is distilled down. Free of any intellectual analysis this intuitive approach makes a statement about actual feelings.

As the writer chooses the words to compose the verse I choose the colours to flow together and transform them into the visual yet melodic composition. The complex of individual elements of the phenomena of the image is built on the other details to create a simple yet inseparable form.

Freshness and clarity of haiku is radiant although it has grown through many layers of thoughts. It is a process of simplifying to an absolute point and from this point my ‘Haiku Prelude – Haiku Kami’ starts.

Haiku Prelude – Haiku Kami series is dedicated to the victims of the Great Eastern Tohoku Earthquake at 11th March 2011.

 

 

Category

Painting

Jack Kerouac  'Snap your finger  stop the world –  rain falls harder'_42cm x 44cm,  acrylic and water based paint on vinyl paper, 2010
Kuniharu Shimizu  'Mountain flowers, still shy, to face the spring sun'_29.5cm x 42.3cm, acrylic and water based paint on vinyl paper, 2011
Takaha Shugyo 'Give me an icicle containing the stars of the deep north'_112.3cm x 68.4cm, acrylic and water based paint on plexiglass, 2010
James W. Hackett  'What wealth can compare to this tea stillness, walnuts, and slices of orange'_40cm x 40cm, acrylic and water based paint on canvas, 2011
Inahata Teiko 'Mountains with snow and mountains without snow all the same height'_50.7cm x 70.8cm, acrylic and water based paint on plexiglass, 2011
David Cobb 'Creaking floor under the worn carpet an earthquake zone'_44.9cm  x 42cm, acrylic and water based paint on vinyl paper, 2011
Herman Van Rompuy 'Different colours, tongues, towers and gods. I search my way'_54.5cm x 80.5 cm, acrylic and water based paint on board, 2010
Bashõ 'The butterfly is perfuming, Its wings in the scent, Of the orchid'_44.4cm x42.7cm, acrylic and water based paint on vinyl paper, 2010
Goto Yahan  'Above the waterfall, water revealed, becomes waterfall'_300cm x 140cm, acrylic and water based paint on vinyl paper, 2010
Ryõkan  'The thief left behind,  the moon in my window'_30cm x 40cm, acrylic and water based paint on vinyl paper, 2010
Buson In the moonlight,  the colour and scent of the wisteria seem so far away'_ 42cm x 43cm, acrylic and water based paint on vinyl paper, 2010
Buson 'In the spring rain, the pond and the river have become one'_42.9cm x 44.9cm, acrylic and water based paint on vinyl paper, 2010
Takaha Shugyo 'Fallen camellias - if I were one, I'd throw myself into the torrent'_91.5 cm x 121.5cm, acrylic, water based paint and resin on canvas, 2011
Takaya Soshu  'Cherry blossoms fall on the sea for the sea is blue'_41.5cm x 45cm, acrylic and water based paint on vinyl paper, 2010/11
Issa 'In this world of ours,  We walk above hell,  Gazing at flowers'_45cm x 37cm, acrylic and water based paint on vinyl paper, 2010
Alison Williams 'moss softens the wings of stone angels'_147cm x 101.5cm, acrylic and water based paint on board, 2011
Ryõta 'They spoke no words. The visitor, the host, And the white chrysanthemum'_30cm x 40cm, acrylic and water based paint on vinyl paper, 2010
Gary Hotham 'the garden we can't see from the ocean— the ocean we can hear'_31cm x 38cm, acrylic and water based paint on vinyl paper, 2011
Juan delGado 'All flows;  a gesture,... and silence'_81cm x 60.5cm, acrylic and water based paint on board, 2011
Richard Wright 'A balmy spring wind Reminding me of something I cannot recall'_54.5cm x 80.5cm, acrylic and water based paint on board, 2010
Ezra Pound 'The apparition of these faces in the crowd Petals on a wet black bough'_54.5cm x 80.5cm, acrylic and water based paint on board, 2010
Bashõ 'The old pond, a frog jumps in the sound of water'_44.7cm x 41.8cm, acrylic and water based paint on vinyl paper, 2010
Herman Van Rompuy 'Silence is not deadly as long as I can hear birds: their song soothes me' _ 152 cm x 121.5cm, acrylic and water based paint on canvas, 2011
Teiko Inahata  'Today Everything, everywhere says spring'_54cm x 176cm, acrylic and water based paint on paper, 2010/11
James W. Hackett 'My pillow, sweet grass; my view, a cloud ever changing… ever the same'_ 42cm x 43cm, acrylic and water based paint on vinyl paper, 2010
Darek Brzózka Brzózkiewicz 'To catch the sun  Against the wind  Of his  Rays'_350cm x 140cm, acrylic and water based paint on vinyl paper, 2010
Caroline Gourlay 'log fire, turning in the flames, my watched thoughts'_40cm x 40cm, acrylic and water based paint on canvas, 2011
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