A THIRD ATTEMPT AT HAIGA

This appears on One Deep Breath, in the Yugen (Mystery) Haiga Prompt of the week of October 23, 2006.

I made the below drawing almost 30 years ago on a hike in the New England woods. I just wrote the accompanying haiku today when I finally set up my scanner and realized I could be using some of my drawings here for haiga. The quality of the scans I post here will hopefully improve as I learn to use the scanner. I.e., the below is a little fuzzy compared to the original.

I can still remember the moment when I saw those patterns on the two tree trunks right next to each other. They were compelling. I used to have that sort of response to things I'd see, which is what would "drive" me to make sketches, to try to get it down. Pretty much the same sort of urge hits when I feel a poem coming on. In both cases -- drawing or writing -- my challenge is always to keep it simple and direct. Which is largely why I like trying to write haiku, and now trying to work with haiga. Less "room" to fuss. Though I do note that the details on the bark in the above drawing gave me plenty of opportunity to fuss. :-)

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Resource: Haiga at RaysWeb.

‘til next time, keep dreaming,

Roswila
[aka: Patricia Kelly]
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