“Small Things”
Not all haiku are serious. This lighthearted piece always captures the imaginations of an audience, with its endearing vignettes of familiar characters hinting at larger stories at work around us.
Part of my vision has been to be able to present haiku as a temporal art form, unfolding in lines to tell its story. “Small Things” is the culmination of many aspects brought together into haiku-based storytelling. While a video, it still requires the viewer to read and engage with the unfolding stories.
Written for Katherine’s Railroad Engineer grandfather, the soundtrack “Lloyd Edgar” is an homage to the Tennessee flat-top box players who have inspired me over the years. I play all the tracks myself.
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“Laughing”
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Original haiku, imagery and soundtrack with Water as muse.
Sounds were sampled from a 55 gallon rain barrel and assembled in the studio.
The imagery is based on an Order-from-Chaos game, where the initial images are from random ink forms transformed with pencil into a menagerie of impromptu critters, all done in one sitting.