Showing posts with label haiku. Show all posts
Showing posts with label haiku. Show all posts

Sunday, January 09, 2011

haiku 2nd part

When I posted the haiku earlier this week, I made a mistake. According to the rules of the haiku-group both the haiku as well as the artwork created by it, should be posted at the same time. And all of this within 5 days after posting of the theme work. So here is the first stage of my fiber translation of my haiku:
In this stage the letters and numbers are only fused to the background. I have not yet had the time to stitch/quilt/bind it.

Thursday, January 06, 2011

haiku's

This year I will not be participating in the CQGB journal quilts because I needed a new challenge. I found this through Carole. She started a new group/blog for haiku's. Haiku's are a form of Japanese poetry based on 5-7-5 syllabes. The haiku will be the inspiration for a fiber or mixed media art work. The size of these will be around journal size - at least for the first year.
I admit my experience of writing poetry is limited to Sinterklaas poetry (Dutch version of Santa Clause). The first theme is 'beginnings' and this is my first haiku:

A first day at school
Numbers, letters, they call you
No more time to play?

In my mind I already see the fiber translation of this. Hopefully I have time the coming days to create it.