Hugo Ball at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, 1916
photographer unknown
Moses
My patch is called Moses, it composes haiku poetry, or rather, recomposes the lines of poetry that are available to it in response to an image.
The images used are all sourced from the internet and have no known photographer. In selecting these images I am interested in the idea of a deficient human element. Found images can sometimes feel personal to us and the narrative elements reveal themselves quickly. At the same time, an everyday or observed feeling reminds us that we can detach ourselves from them and their subjects quite readily.
The text being used is sourced from Japanese haiku poetry, translated into English. The poets include Buson (1715-1783), Basho (1644-1694), and Buson (1715-1783) and other major poets to make use of the Haiku.
Traditionally, the Haiku presents a contrast or a 'cutting' aspect, including the juxtaposiition of text and image.
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Comical Dutch script
Flip-flapping across the sky
In this windy nest
On the death of his child
And dry my dreaming but still ...
Insatiable fleas
Women planting rice
Drawn up from my frozen well ...
Weird hollow echo
Issa stepchild bird
Dew evaporates and all our world is dew ...
Black cloudbank broken
But their ancient song
Flip-flapping across the sky
Wild geese write a line
The songs of froglings
Our old scarecrow topples down
In silent midnight
White they meet
Scatters in the night ... now see
Black cloudbank broken