This is the first entry in Chapter
6 of the Clean Energy Haiku book I am writing – Handling the
unforeseen and unintended.
Kakabeka, the second highest waterfall in
Ontario, comes with a great story… An Ojibwa
Chief instructed his daughter to devise a plan to protect her people from an
imminent Sioux invasion. She entered the Sioux camp, pretending to be lost,
bargained with them to spare her life if she would guide them to her father’s
camp. Placed in the bow of the lead canoe, she instead led the warriors and
herself over the falls to their deaths. The legend claims that one can see her
when looking into the mist of Kakabeka Falls, a monument to the princess who
gave her life to save her people… If I’d know about this before I painted the
falls, I would have included her and made this an allegorical picture.
Here’s an explanation of the haiku on the
painting above.
Line 1: Technology or service displacing
established industry
Line 2: An allegory is a device used in
literature and art to signify a meaning that is not literal. It may be
symbolic of a concept, like disruptive new stuff or unintended consequences of
legislation.
