Carpe Diem #753 arts

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Today's prompt arts I had some trouble with. I couldn't get the relation with summer and arts, because in my opinion arts is something for every season, but as I read the haiku on arts by Jane herself I started to understand it. Arts ... are really most specific for summer. Summer is the season for living outside your home, to go into the forest, into nature and summer is in any way the perfect season to shoot wonderful photos or paint gorgeous "open air" paintings. Or the wonderful colors of e.g. the mountains touched by raindrops .... yes I think summer and arts are perfect together and I do understand now why Jane has included arts as a modern summer kigo (seasonword).

Haiku and art are in a way bound together and I even have tried to bring a special feature here on CDHK about art and haiku, maybe you can remember "Carpe Diem's Arti-visual Haiku". I have just done that feature once and maybe I have to bring it up here again. Here is the goal:

You may choose a piece of art, that can be a painting, a sculpture, a photo or something else made by for example Vincent Van Gogh, but it also can be an art-piece made by yourself. Maybe you are a painter or a photographer. You may also use a piece of art which you have made especially for this feature.

The artwork you use must be the inspiration for your haiku. So for this episode you may use for example a sculpture which you have made yourself, but there has to be a classical or non-classical haiku inspired on the art-work in your post. I have given you the prompt arts for today, but there is no need to use it. You can decide for yourself which prompt or theme you will use, but it must have to do with summertime. Feel free and share also your own art-work as I will do myself.

Of course I love to share a few haiku by Jane in this episode:

covered with pollen
looking deep into a flower
camera lens

holding the day
between my hands
the new clay bowl

waterfall painting
dripping enough water
to tint the rock

© Jane Reichhold

Credits: photo © Chèvrefeuille

The above photo I made myself. It's the city park just around the corner. This park is a nice place to be in every season, but I enjoy it mostly in summer. You can go fishing there, do some sunbathing, swimming or just go there to sit down in deep silent meditation. This (above) photo you maybe have seen earlier that's correct as you have visited my personal weblog once, than you could have seen it, but it's also at Wonder Haiku Worlds, an international website on haiku and other poetry forms.

I have written several haiku inspired on this photo, and I used it as the cover for my first Dutch haiku-book titled "Deep Silence" (or in Dutch "diep is de stilte"). The haiku which I composed than (2009) was inspired by this photo:

silence
in between worlds
the city park

© Chèvrefeuille (2009)

I have another photo of this wonderful city park, it's taken from another angle to show the beauty of the park.

© photo Chèvrefeuille

waterlilies reach
from the mud to the bright sun
straight through the water

© Chèvrefeuille

I am looking forward to all of your responses on this episode of our Haiku Kai. This episode will be open for your submissions tonight at 7.00 PM (CET) and will remain open until June 15th at noon (CET) (24 hours longer than usual). I will try to publish our new episode, meadow, later on. For now ... just have fun, be inspired and share your responses with us all here at our Haiku Kai.

Carpe Diem's "Arti-visual" Haiku #1

Credits: logo

Dear haijin, visitors and travelers,

As I started writing haiku in the late Eighties ... I also started painting, drawing and photographing to become inspired to write haiku. While the years past by I remained to photograph, but painting and drawing I let go just of lack of time and because I would try to become a better haiku-poet.
Now ... several years later I love to bring artwork back into my haiku writing and so I created an all new feature for Carpe Diem Haiku Kai.This new feature is all about art and therefor I have named it Carpe Diem's "Arti-visual" Haiku.

The goal of this new feature is as follows:

You may choose a piece of art, that can be a painting, a sculpture, a photo or something else made by for example Vincent Van Gogh, but it also can be an art-piece made by yourself. maybe you are a painter or a photographer. You may also use a piece of art which you have made especially for this feature.
Your used artwork must be the inspiration for your haiku. So for this new feature you may use for example a sculpture which you have made yourself, but there has to be a classical or non-classical haiku inspired on the art-work in your post. For this feature I will not give a prompt, you can decide for yourself which prompt or theme you will use. Feel free and share also your own art-work as I will do myself in this first episode.
This new feature will be published once in a month, so this first episode runs to October 11th at noon (CET).

Let me share my art-work for this very first episode of our "Arti-Visual" haiku feature. This first art-work I have made recently and it was inspired on the paintings by Mondriaan (a Dutch painter, who used mostly red, yellow and blue colors in sleek designed paintings). I will first give an example of his work hereafter.

Credits: Tableau by Piet Mondriaan (Dutch website)

I like this sleek style of Mondriaan and I also like his choice for only the primary colors, red, blue and yellow.

And here is my "painting" inspired on Mondriaan:

Mondriaan inspired cobweb © Chèvrefeuille

This art-work inspired me to write the following "Arti-Visual" haiku:

morning dew shimmers, 
the sun climbs into the sky -
colored cobweb

© Chèvrefeuille

Well ... it's maybe not a strong haiku, but I liked composing it. And ... it was fun to share one of my new paintings ...
I hope you all like this new feature and I hope to see wonderful art-work and read wonderful "Arti-Visual" haiku created by you all my dear Haijin, visitors and travelers. Have fun!

This episode of Carpe Diem "Arti-Visual" haiku is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until October 11th at noon (CET).