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Question: Where can I find explanations and anthologies of how Haiga work?
Good question. You've given me an idea to post a document over at our NEW haiga group. Just a simple intro to the general idea. Basically, though, you pop a haiku, or related, onto or under a picture. This can be any 2D artwork you like. Photographs are popular. The words and the image can be designed to compliment each other directly, or they can be a puzzle of relationship. Thing to do is, do a few - what's the worst that can happen! ^_^ Then, think about what you experience when you regard what you've produced. A day, week, month, year... later, what do you see? Also, Google haiga images to explore the wide variety of options people employ . . .
This is a good enough place to start . . .
And here . . .
Google Images: 'haiga'
Google Images: 'modern haiga'
MORE LINKS
Google: 'haiga' images - http://goo.gl/K2JYY
Google: 'modern haiga' images - http://goo.gl/1s2Lo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiga
Sumi-e (ink & wash painting): http://bit.ly/sumi-e
Ukiyo-e (woodblock printing) http://bit.ly/ukiyo-eprints
Famous woodblock artist: http://bit.ly/KatsushikaHokusai
Also, do enjoy and learn from the posts here at our exciting and informative Facebook haiga group . . .
jp
Portrait of Matsuo Bashō by Yokoi Kinkoku, c. 1820. The calligraphy relates one of Bashō's most famous haiku poems: Furu ike ya / kawazu tobikomu / mizu no oto (An old pond / a frog jumps in / the sound of water).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiga
11-09-11
NOTE A useful tip: if you reload an image's page it will go to maximum size. This can be handy if an image is too small in the album. Here's an example to try out - http://goo.gl/8BQVO
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What are the options for juxtaposition of words and image?
We can consider the combination as an integrated whole, have two standalone entities (ku and image) which confirm each other, or we can have two standalone entities (ku and image) which are 'antagonistic' and require a higher order conceptual resolution to integrate (an unexpected symbiosis of the component parts of ku and image). The parallel to this, of course, is kireji (cutting word/punctuation) whose job (amongst others) is to accentuate and contrast two thematic elements of a haiku (often enough at the first or second lines, more rarely, the third).
NEWBIE?
Browse Google for a *FREE* photo-editor.. Meanwhile simply post your pic with a haiku (etc) in the pic-comment? Maybe someone will volunteer to help you get your head around some basic image editing - just post a request. . . .
EXPERIMENTATION?
In our group here we're totally flexible. We could call the page 'Images & Words'. The reason for this is that, although we are haiga-focused, some people will be fuzzy about what that actually means, also their interpretation of what a haiku is - as well as other haikai word-games layered over 2D. So, we encourage artistic experimentation and, hopefully, we all learn from this.
WORKSHOPPING?
A useful focus here: http://tinyurl.com/Workshopping
ADD INFORMATION (first comment box will do, rather than the post's text field)
Subject: _______
Loction: _______
Haiku & Image: _______ [or drop '& image' - or visa versa - and credit...
Image -or text- by kind permission of: _______]
Font: _______
Pic Editor: _______
Camera: _______ [add any settings, as needed]
These are suggestions only, the compulsory one is to credit origination properly. Your name on your own work would cover both image and words, if these are both your own. Otherwise, credit as suggested:'by kind permission' and ensure you have this.
WordArt
If you have msOffice you have a nifty little utility on board called WordArt - give it ago, it's a lot of fun. . . . http://tinyurl.com/WordArtCircle
For those with no msOffice there is an equally powerful (and compatible) office suite called OpenOffice. It's *FREE* and has a WordArt equivalent:
http://tinyurl.com/OpenOfficeFontWork
http://tinyurl.com/OpenOfficeHere
Recommended.
FONTS
As haigaists we should really have a basic understanding of fonts - it helps to open our eyes a little more through understanding. Here's some intro to 'em from Wikipedia. . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font
REMINDER
Reload page for a bigger view. . . .
USEFUL LINKS
PC
http://tinyurl.com/searchFREEfonts
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/ [FREE & licenced for commercial use]
http://tinyurl.com/searchFREEpic-editor
MAC
http://tinyurl.com/MacPicsFree
Browse: haiga taiga haibunga senryuga epigramaiga [montage]. . . .
Haikai and related illustrated forms can deepen into their primordial magical roots. The haiga as tarot card, type thing - one step away from the cave people's dancing animals. Heading for the bottomless bottom of the ancient pond. . . .
jp
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18-09-11
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