I Haiku YOU!
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This Haiku class could cause your Valentine to swoon for you! Looking for a unique way to tell your loved ones how much you care about them?
Why not try your hand at writing a poem in the form of a Valentine's Day Haiku?
Haiku dates back to 17th century Japan and are brief 3 line poems with a total of seventeen syllables that follow a strict 5/7/5 syllablic pattern.
Haiku is often focused on simple subjects, but the words are chosen very carefully so each Haiku is a special gift of love to share.
When you have created your favorite one ~ you will have the opportunity to transfer your Haiku on to a piece of high quality watercolor paper and add your own personal details to enhance your newly created expression of LOVE! What to expect:
All ages welcome
All supplies are included in this class!
I am a multi-disciplinary artist living in Chicago, working in oil paint, installation, and object-based practices. Currently, I am exploring representation of objects and how they vacillate between imagination and that which is tangible. The distance between these two perceptions is informed by an individual’s life experiences; everyone lives to a different degree inside a dream.
I incorporate reclaimed objects, as well as a variety of other media, into my work, expressed in the form of assemblages that integrate items from my environment into a cohesive piece. This creates space to explore placement and re-define accepted associations. Similarly, my paintings are composed of non-connected objects intuitively painted on the canvas, creating surrealistic compositions that explore the relationship shared by these objects, blurring the edges between eroticism and banality of this dreamscape as it is informed by the real world. This provides the viewer a metaphoric playhouse to wander though unknown topographies of their imagination.
We are exposed to an overwhelming degree of stimuli daily, creating an anesthetized perception of the world. My intent is to jar the viewer out of their walking numbness, granting them permission to delve into and re-examine familiar objects with fresh eyes.
Like a Zen parable, I want my work to confound the logical brain to access a deeper, more nuanced truth.