Image With Haiku: A Dance Of Shadows

Aha!
This is awesome. What a very nice surprise!
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The colrs are precious and soft. Thanks, Wrick.

I like the title..and the high bow.
Wrick, you keep disappearing!
Good to see another beautiful artwork with Haiku from you.

Beautiful....where have you been?

This is lovely!!

ahh, you return at last!
i love the visual effect you've achieved - its like looking through berry-stained gossamer. and the haiku is perfectly simple and deep.

This is a creative and beautiful piece of work.
10+

That's a very interesting title - especially as it is the title of my mystery novel that has been entered in the First Chapter Mystery Novel contest that begins voting tomorrow. If you are interested in checking out my "take" on A Dance of Shadows, check here http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977158904 tomorrow, vote and comment. I do like the colors and image of your artwork - a definite 10!

just awesome!

thanks Jackie - it was a surprise to me too! it simply became. i had been working with all of the pieces - then i saw it in my skull... the rest was following through - and that was fun. i like the way you are seeing the color. way special. cool.

thanks Minnie - i like the haiku a lot. it works into a variety of meanings and with the image... it takes off again. i like that. Yes, i do keep disappearing. i'm like that. my real problem is time. i like posting here a lot - because people here take the time to look and comment. what is so difficult for me is to return the looking and commenting - which i want to do - but you know me... i have to do it my way. which can take me a lonnnnng time. i can post plenty of work. it's keeping up with comments and returning the time to those who look at my work that is the challenge for me... so i end up... disappearing to work. hmmmm... i do appreciate the time people take tho. and thanks for yours!

Sue S. - thank you. some of your answer is in what i commented to Minnie of course. i am working on a lot of things and it's an issue of time. i did manage to put together a calender of images with haiku - many of which i posted here. some are new and many of the haiku are from else where (i haiku in a variety of places and ways). so i've been trying to update my 19 Planets Cafepress shop and doing a lot of Mail Art projects. whew. i am around tho. thanks for looking and commenting - and asking too.

Judi J. - somehow i think this piece fits your spirit. cool on that. thanks for looking in.

Aloha Melinda - thank you. i'm glad it reaches you in that way.

thanks Amy - i am all over the place and no more than a speck of sand on an ocean of beaches. i like posting here. and i like that you look. may be you looking at that postcard connected me up to posting here? hmmmm. interesting thought yes. i'm well enough - way plenty to do of course. a lot of it is fun tho - which is way cool by me - thanks - i know you must be swamped too. ..on to the next thing, yes. have fun.

Mona - ha returnings. happy returnings on you. i am around (as i've mentioned above) - just scrambling to get to everything. ...in the past i thought i was going to tell people that i hibernated from Oct. through Jan. - which can happen. but every year is slightly different too. hmmm. again. every time i read your "berry-stained gossamer" comment my mouth waters. it's easy to see how you've pegged that visual - i often find i like the "juicy-ness" of a painting. so if i've caught that for you - way cool on that. i like the alternating possible meanings in the haiku - i think that kind of level layering helps depth and haiku itself is such a simple form with so much potential, yes. i like your take on this piece. thank you.

Aloha Jim Cherry - thank you. i like that combination being connected to my work. cool on that.

oh! Penny. Aloha. your comment took me by wide-eyed-surprise. ...even though i know something like this is possible with so many word workers in the world. thank you for the kindness of your words - given that we've both choosen the same words. ...i gotta hope you go far with your novel with a title like that. i am a very slow reader. i dont get it if i dont read it moving from one word to the next - that makes me slow i know but i have a better chance of understanding if i do it that way - otherwise i can get the exact opposite meaning when i try to go fast. i will try to get to your chapter. there is a word in Spanish (which i cant spell or i'd write it here) which is used when two people have the same name - it's understood that they have a special kind of connection and that word indicates that (at least that is my understanding of the word). ...so... now... i'm wondering if our "same title" gives us a special kind of connection too. i'd like to think so. ...one connection i know of... is. . . i like Mysteries. thanks for your comments and good luck in the contest - i personally hope the experience of entering it becomes a fulfilling reward in itself.

aloha Virginia V - cool. and thank you. i'm glad you looked and liked it.

have fun all - i hope i didnt miss anyone. i do appreciate the time you all take to look, comment and be YOU. that's always a good thing to be imo. aloha. - Wrick.

Wrick, you never cease to amaze me with your beautiful creations. Thank you. Salud.

thank you Gypsy - i like the simplicity of the shapes in this because it allows the subtle color to show up well.

thank you Mariana - you are welcome - i like to keep exploring in my work - it's nice to know it connects with you. have fun and good health on you too.

Love it!

cool Karolyn - thanks for looking, i'm glad you liked it.

Again,a beautiful shadow picture and precious Haiku!
sorry about my stupid car joke!

hahahha - aliehs, i liked your sense of humor. no worries. never give up your sense of humor! - it's now made me laugh twice!

Perfect !

thank you Tuwanda - i'm glad you like it.

thank you Jill - yes exactly - that texture gives a great sense of rippling depth to the silhouettes. i like that too.

my inspiration flow... hmmmm... i think may be we have spoken about "skull-talking" as we work on a piece, yes? may be not. do you know what i mean? the way when we are so involved with our process that sometimes a dialogue goes on in our skull - a conversing more or less.. or may be a chanting song-like refrain that evolves as if you are sharing with another being (sometimes this can become so intensely real that if i have a specific other being in mind i can actually later think i've had the dialogue with them - and they know about it).

some of this skull-talking i attribute to what may be called "muse dialogue". in that process words form and drift away. feelings sweep through me. connections and insight and... good things happen inside of me. the idea of a piece begins sometimes and simply evolves - if i know i intend to create haiga - haiku with image - i often begin with the image. i see/feel where the image takes me. from that i begin to explore the haiku-ing. i may not be finished with the image - but usually i know where the image is before i know the fullness of the haiku. at the same time they both have to fit each other and dialogue with each other in a way that satisfies me – often if each were taken a lone neither would create what both create together. often in a number of ways - or at a number of levels this coupling has to work.

of course i also haiku without image - simply by feeling inside of me OR by experience-feeling what is immediately around me (which is one of the best ways as far as i am concerned - but memory of experience can work too).

some vision or idea will begin - i dont always know how it begins, something excites me and i respond to it - an idea. a person. an image or scene - light. when that response pulls me. when i am excited in that way - i know i need to get at it with my hands and materials. sometimes i can postpone that and still retain the drive to do it. it's much better if i go head first into it and plunge. Sometimes that plunge takes a long time to be the right or the right timing so that all the pieces fit together in the right way...

i've worked long enough to understand that often working this way (as above), things simply fall into place – I just have to allow the doing of it. however i've also learned that when things do not fall in place - not to give up. if i keep working all the way through that difficulty until i come out on the other side of it, i often end up with a very rich piece. so it no longer bothers me where i am in my process - what i've learned is to let it evolve and if i need more or less risk to evolve it - do it.

...and then of course there is the timing of "when is it finished". that is a grappling decision. one often that should be made before i think i am done. so... sometimes.. if i think i might be done. i am. even if i have not completely done all i had thought i would do as the original idea was set out in my mind.

one of the nice things about digital technology and creating with it, is that i can often explore a variety of processes and then make choices base on the result.

all of this said... this particular piece... began and evolved in another way. the shadow and the finger painting were separate parts of another piece i did recently. that piece was for a page in a Skinny Book i am doing - an artists alphabet skinny book (a project in a Mail Art format). it had to do with the letter F. finger painting was one of my F words. however i also saw that i could use the finger painting pieces - i did two - in many ways. that process and the outcome excited me beyond it's initially intended use.

the birds were a simple way to use the two values of my finger paintings in simple shapes. but i felt there was more there than just for that skinny book page (a skinny book page is 3.5 x 7 inches). The works themselves offered more – more potential – which is why I save things like this. (in fact those two finger paintings are now being worked into a number of ATCs with a "twisted inch" theme – more Mail Art.) i didnt know how i would put them together but a simple game i enjoy - the Capture This game - spoke to me about what i had already done. - Shadows. so i did another piece - a different format (8 x 10) – because I had known the pieces I'd brought together for the skinny book had a lot more in them than the one piece. This second piece included different placements and workings. and of course the feeling sense of the haiku – I simply felt it was the right way to go with this material. in both pieces - the skinny book page and the haiga piece you can see i've used the same elements - no question about that. yet each is very different as an entire piece too.

so... how does my inspiration flow? hmmmm... from one moment and doing into that same moment of doing i simply allow what i wish to do in that moment to unfold. cryptic? i'm not sure how else to say it. i like being in this moment and watching, feeling, experiencing what unfolds. it's a life long moment of wow.

Hmmmm. I've rambled. I'm not sure I answered your question tho…

ok. all of the above is off the top of my keyboard and under my flickering fingers - so i probably should think about it a little and see if i really agree with myself about what i've said. however... no. i'll just read it for typos and put it here for you. – even if later I have to disagree with myself…

thanks for a great question to explore. This is how I often find out what I do think about some thing. i'll explore it more and probably watch some thing i am doing - or in the process of doing/unfolding/creating, with this thinking and questioning in the back of my skull bouncing dialogue off the walls there... that's the muse dialogue of course - sometimes you are that muse. sometimes you initiate that dialogue – many people can do that for me… - i like that. so thanks. thanks for looking and commenting. - have fun. aloha - Wrick.

Wonderful work, Wrick. As always, it's a pleasure reading and viewing.

good haiku

Heeeyyy!Happy new Year!
Aloha!

I hope you had the celebration that you wanted...and the best year before you...

Judi - thanks for looking - the depths of connecting between human beings... between all beings are something i think we often forget about in our surface life - getting caught up in that surface life. when we look deeper all beings are amazing, stunning and worthwhile, yes. it's good to know that people exist who look into those deeper levels. thanks again.

aloha Laura - thank you. there is always so much worth exploring, yes. thanks for taking the time to look.

thanks J. i'm glad you explored.

aloha Sheila - Happy New Yearing to you as well. - every year is different. despite the challenges on many fronts that will arise this year, i am very hopeful... even now... 24 days into it! the one place i believe i may have some control... in some way... is in creating. i am doing and intend to do exactly that. have fun. yes.