Thumbnails to Motifs

Mackenzie and I chose two haikus that we thought had the best visual picture portrayed by the lines of the poem. We originally had around fifteen selected from various sources and decided on one of the haikus Mackenzie found and one that I had found. The first, and rejected haiku, is:

Empty trees, bare bone

Dancing skeletons caper

Hear the howling wind.

These are the ten thumbnails produced for each line.

The second haiku, and the one that we decided to continue the project with, is:

Windy winter rain

My silly big umbrella

Tries walking backward

These are the ten thumbnails for each line, and also the first round of iterations for the haiku sketches to be used in our final project.

Second round of iterations. 

 Final iterations of haiku line sketches.

 This is where the objects we found relating to the haiku came into play. We had accumulated marks produced by the objects. These marks were unique to the objects and unique to the way the object was used to make the mark. These objects were covered in ink and then dropped, splattered, pulled, twisted, and pressed on paper to make a mark. We then looked at all of these marks to find the forms we needed to recreate our haiku sketches using just the marks. In some cases, these motifs are basically direct translations from the sketches and in other cases the most similar marks were applied to replicate the sketches. In these instances, a difference is evident in form, but the same concept is still communicated.

Windy winter rain

My silly big umbrella

Tries walking backward