
Stumble,
Hurry hurry! catch
Catch the trail
Muddy trails is
break break
Forest fires & foot prints
Before the crumbs are gone.
a collection of modern-ish haiku accompanied by painting / illustrations – mixing European impressionism and Japanese sumi-e. made books in Guam, printed on hemp paper, mailed to elsewhere
Free haiku and paintings on variety of paper. Made in Tottori, Japan, 1993/4. Read publicly at my older brother’s wedding in Okizaki, Japan.
I’d recently rambled Europe and feasted on Van Gogh and Mattisse and combining their bold lines and bright colours with the efficiency and conciseness of Japanese aesthetic, these emerged.
Produced into a very limited run series (maybe 30?) of chapbooks printed on hemp + cereal straw paper and sewn (top binding) with hemp thread in Guam in 1995/6 and mailed to friends. I don’t have one of these bound copies, only the delicate originals in a file.