Haiku * by Prof. Gurga

It's interesting all the thoughts and emotions that are brought forth by reading a haiku. It makes you wonder what the writer was thinking and what that imagery actually means to you.

Tokonomas

Haiku Process

• use your surroundings as inspiration
  
  
  
  • take the senses and the feelings and put that into the poem
    
  • actually take time to note everything around you before starting the poems
    
  
  
• the poems themselves will not always be recognized
  
  
  
  • it is only a haiku when someone appreciates it
    
  • you throw away whatever isn't recognized
    
  • descriptive haiku that doesn't tell you how to feel is the best
    
  
  
• poems presented before the class:
  

  branches wave vigorously
  as if inviting us to stay--
  let's go indoors already

  
  

  the crinkle of wrappers
  hot tea bites the tongues
  on a gusty day

  
  
• other poems I wrote:
  

  green hidden
  among last year's leaves
  water pours in buckets

  
  

  a painful breath
  while in a glass cage
  the rain has started

  
  

  delicately woven fabrics
  shine in the lamplight
  but mother says no

  
  

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additional items on display

Hade, Shibui, Iki, Wabisabi - project 03

Hade

Iki

Shibui

Wabi-Sabi

There were three layers to this project. First was the way the weave was cut. Second were the colors used. Third was the type of paper that was used.

The two corrections that I need to make are the colors for iki (one of them needs to be black) and the presentation of wabi-sabi (the threads are already weaved in, so the extra cut is unnecessary).

The detail of the design for the shibui piece is lost in this picture. It's even hard to see in person but you can definitely feel it if you touch it. The texture of the wabi-sabi piece is also very soft.