WHChaikumultimedia                                                                                                        exercise #3
  7/03                                                                                                                                   Tulip Festival
                                                                                          
                                                   - New Illustrations of a Haiku -
 

     "As with traditional haiga, the best combinations create something new by the combination -- a synergy that is greater than the sum of its elements. If either the image or the poem is redundant, then what is accomplished? A good modern haiga should rise above mere "illustration" of the poem."

Michael Dylan Welch, "Objective and Subjective Assessments of Modern Haiga".

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After reading Michael's commentary and having the opportunity to enter into discussions about the nature of combining poem with image, we are now seeing the same haiku in different ways.


                                                               tulip festival—
                                                               the colours of all the cars
                                                               in the parking lot
                                                                                                      Michael Dylan Welch