Cape Dorset - Inuit Art Central
Haiga is a style of illustration that
reflects the pure, minimalist aesthetics of haiku poetry. In my haiku project, the haiga on which I
place the haiku are computer-simplified versions of some of my Canadian
landscape paintings.
Last week I explained that lines of haiku
are selected randomly from lists of ‘found’ phrases, in order to create
potentially-brilliant juxtapositions of unrelated concepts.
I used the same procedure to find unrelated
haiga backgrounds for the poems… within
reason, of course. If you know where Cape Dorset is, you will know that the
selection of a line beginning with ‘remote’ was not entirely random. Or even slightly random.
