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Haiga of Ellen Peckham

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The Haiku Foundation honors the work of contemporary masters of the dual art of haiga: visual image wedded to haiku. This month’s featured artist is Ellen Peckham.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
“Way, way back, when I was young, in the age of specialization, we were taught that the artist should concentrate on one medium: oil, sculpture, pastel, etc. and certainly should not presume to communicate in more than one voice. I remember being fascinated by Van Gogh’s letters, Blake’s prints with his poetry and philosophy and the work of other multi-faceted geniuses. But, listening to my masters, I accounted these flukes beyond the normal range of living mortals, certainly of a female. So when, little by little, I became aware of the duality of expression by artists of both genders, I broke from my cultural limits and began to include and to publish separately my poems and a few essays. Recently poems have appeared in the United States, Japan, Great Britain, Peru, and other countries. I use the two voices alone or layered. Sometimes the words – my own or those which have spoken especially clearly to me – are included in the visual art as subject, as gloss, as decoration. Other times there are poems and visual pieces created together but not produced as one. And occasionally drawings or prints or collages are added to the printed word as small grace notes, related but not included in one work. Two volumes of my haiku and haiga (the art in which the poems appear) are being collected in editions of 7 each. When first asked to give readings, as aside from mounting poems at an exhibit or publishing them, I balked. Now it is a joyful aspect of the total, akin to hanging my work on a wall, and the interaction is exciting and informative. To my great pride, The Harry Ransom Center For The Arts at the University of Texas in Austin is creating an archive of my drafts, published work and art.”

 

Amethyst Sea

Amethyst Sea

a gift — waking to
amethyst sea, rose quartz sky
tied with mauve ribbons


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Aspirin

Aspirin

half an aspirin is
quite enough for this empty
shriveled heart of mine


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Backlit

Backlit

backlit by store lights
her shadow cast in puddles —
rain pixilates it


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Blowing Spring

Blowing Spring

outside my window
wheels paddled by Gods whirl wind
round and round


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Cold Summer

Cold Summer

cold summer
window screens shiver
ice won’t melt


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Ghost Ships

Ghost Ships

Circle Line’s “ghost ship”
crossing cold April Hudson
without voyagers


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Golden Orb

Golden Orb

golden orb
end of twenty-third —
autumn moon


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

High Iron Walkway

High Iron Walkway

high iron walkway
loaded with plants passable
just heel to toe


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Hospital

Hospital

hospital
dares show lights after
you are gone


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Iced Roses

Iced Roses

the last white roses
now antique ivory against
the new-fallen snow


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

In Rain

In Rain

in rain pungent smoke
rings round remembered evening
Gauloise — Manhattan
then disappear


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Lima Morning

Lima Morning

Lima morning fog
blowing thick into my room
limp curtain’s jealous


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Littered Embankment

Littered Embankment

littered embankment:
either side of the tracks gilt
forsythia gold


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Magi

Magi

magi this year bring
not myrrh but foods’ scents — each one’s
specialité


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Milky Way

Milky Way

in New York
Milky Way’s just a
candy bar


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Montauk II

Montauk II

so cold today spume
flash freezes, ice long before
it can sink away


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Montauk III

Montauk III

shadows of gulls across
my shadow which precedes me
darkening the sand


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Montauk V

Montauk V

Nirmala’s temples —
driftwood and shells created
offerings to tides


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Montauk VII

Montauk VII

the mist at cliff’s rise
retreats as I approach — veils
one will never wear


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Montauk VIII

Montauk VIII

last January
Lord Neptune’s bankers offered
far richer returns


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Montauk IX

Montauk IX

a fisherman casts
in the surf for mist — can’t see
his translucent catch


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Montauk X

Montauk X

sand-clams’ blow-holes dot
the shingle I walk upon
goddess — destroyer


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Montauk XI

Montauk XI

competitive kids
dig holes to China in sand
then disappear


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Montauk XII

Montauk XII

beach fire late at night —
within a tent of sea spray
marshmallows in brine


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Montauk XV

Montauk XV

just today the curl
under the breaking wave crest
shows luminous jade


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Montauk XVI

Montauk XVI

Friday — arriving
hotel guests tentatively
toe at water’s edge


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Montauk XVII

Montauk XVII

pounding rain last night
washed away the seagulls’ tracks —
fans etched every which-way


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Montauk XIX

Montauk XIX

scintillating bag
(old like this one) caught in weeds
torn, tired — now still


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Montauk XXI

Montauk XXI

pilgrimage: too soon —
trees only glazed autumnal
waiting one good frost


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Montauk XXII

Montauk XXII

speckled seagull perched
on driftwood — hard to tell which
marks it leaves behind


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Montauk XXV

Montauk XXV

black plastic bag blows
cavorting — flirting yet it
leaves the snow-fence cold


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Mourning Doves

Mourning Doves

mourning doves driven
away by building’s fall leave
two white eggs up here


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Musty Sheets

Musty Sheets

musty sheets
melting soap rusty
bicycles


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

New York Ants

New York Ants

New York ants
high up drenched with no
umbrella


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

One Plump Bee

One Plump Bee

one plump bee
harvesting city
balcony


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Paper Blown In

Paper Blown In

paper blown in
caught in branches, creased by rain
origami flower


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Patio at Ariosto

Patio at Ariosto

with perfect timing
that blossom drifts by just as
camera’s shutter snaps


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Platinum

Platinum

more precious metal
in the mirror every day —
turning platinum


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Rebecca’s Photo I

Rebecca’s Photo I

strange joy and solace
came — a gift — with a photo
of you watching me


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Rebecca’s Photo II

Rebecca’s Photo II

old photo: we lean
towards one another — engaged
irradiated


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Shelter Island Haiku

Shelter Island Haiku

curtain billowing
though there’s no breeze blowing now?
moths at my window


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Skinny-dipping

Skinny-dipping

skinny-dipping late
phosphorescence silver gilts
every stroke and plunge


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Sunbeam

Sunbeam

when i stood up that
sunbeam sitting on my lap
curled up on my chair


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

Watching Rain

Watching Rain

“real” work calls
but watching rain fall
matters more


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

welcome mat

welcome mat

look at the door mat —
forsythia petals blown
cemented by rain


media: Solarplate Etching with Chine Collé
plates: Irregularly 12" x 9"
paper size: 22" x 15"
date: 2010

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