Tracks, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
March winds rock the house
the writer sits at her desk
unearthing old bones
-posted on red Ravine, Thursday, March 6th, 2008
-related to posts: haiku (one-a-day) and snow flying on ice (sound haiku)
good haiku and that is what we do
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Yes, it is.
This photo, QM, was so wonderful to see paint on my screen. At first I really didn’t know what it was. It was like those books where you have to keep staring at the picture for a while and then something comes into focus (??Something Eye?? — they were really big for a while).
Now that I see — a track over snow on ice, a leaf with the light shining on it — I of course make it out immediately. But the first time, it was abstract.
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QM, Lovely! I even like the visual aspect of your haiku…its perfect symmetry, as well as its truth and integrity.
Just picked up “Old Friend…” and know I’m going to gain a lot of good from it.
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very nice haiku – I see myself at my desk, also unearthing those bones.
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Another beautiful match of photo and haiku, QM. 🙂
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Thanks to all. I am enjoying this practice immensely. Very grounding for me. And a way to combine both loves – writing and photography. The leaf is caught in the light of sunset as it (the leaf and the light) skids across the lake. I am drawn to photograph single leaves (as evidenced by this post as well (LINK). I have no idea why.
oliverowl, hope you enjoy Natalie’s new book. Hope you’ll come back and share your insights as you read and write. 8)
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ybonesy, I’m glad it was abstract, and appeared paint-like. I can’t remember at the time if I knew I was also photographing the tire track across the leaf. But it adds to the composition. You can’t see the whole context, but this leaf was literally in the middle of a frozen lake, all alone. How did it get there? And where was it going?
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Magic Eye
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leslie, what a link. I can’t see the underneath pattern in those things to save me. I never could. Why can some people see the mystery in the Magic Eye, and others can not? I gave up trying a long time ago. 8) It all looks like Op Art to me. Remember Op Art from the 60’s?
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Ah, leslie comes through again! MAGIC Eye. I just saw someone in the grocery store deli looking at one the other day. I hadn’t seen one for about ten years.
I don’t remember Op Art, though, QM.
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It took me FOREVER to finally have the illusion do its number on my vision. After you “see” it once, it happens more readily.
Have you ever stared at a patterned ceiling, or fabric, and had it not be at the correct “depth perception”? Almost feels like you are looking at it ever so slightly cross eyed?
That’s the same sensation, or visual operation at work with the magic eye.
I remember Op Art, and I have the Magic Eye book. Hours of cross eyed fun!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op_art
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leslie, yes, I know what you mean about staring up at the ceiling. BTW, our cat, Mr. StripeyPants does that all the time. We call it his Pants Trance.
Liz looked up some Op Art artists over last weekend and showed them to me. And she said the term first appeared in print in Time magazine in October 1964. She also reminded me of the connection to the Bauhaus Movement, which I am familiar with. And that started to add a context for me and connect the dots. Names like Josef Albers, Victor Vasarely, Bridget Riley, and even Laszlo Moholy-Nagy produced photographic Op art.
I remember as a kid seeing Op Art in fashion pieces that someone like Twiggy might wear. It was all over the place in the 60’s. And don’t some of the Target ads remind you of Op Art?
Liz found some Op Art museum pieces. But then we got distracted by (Dutch painter) Mondrian’s early work – in particular his paintings of a certain tree in vivid reds and blues. Wow. Then later, his work developed into angles and planes. It was kind of fun looking back through Art and Time.
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Pants Trance! That’s exactly it!
The association of Twiggy with Op Art took me off in the ‘way back’ machine 🙂
The Target ads do put me in mind of that era. Reminds me of Peter Max, who was on the scene then, too.
CBS Sunday morning had a clip yesterday about Gustav Klimt, one of my favorites. He combines my love of representational with abstract just exactly right!
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