silence between us...
cherry petals
in flight
Natalia L. Rudychev
2007 Sakura Award Haiku
HaigArt is a living experiment which I invite you to share. It is the place where I learn to pay careful attention to details that are generally overlooked. Constant stress and hectic pace of modern life often prevent us from stepping back and taking time to admire and cherish ordinary things, things that have history, things that do not shout, things that whisper in quiet voices.
Most people do not repair things anymore they just discard them as something no longer of use. Utilitarian approach goes further and permeates human relationships. Utilitarianism creates a void that people try to fill with even more agressive consumption.
People look for immediate solutions to their problems. People overeat and look for the magical diet pill. They get sleep disorder and seek help from the revolutionary matress design. They accumulate huge ammounts of debt on their credit cards and turn to drugs and alcohol to relieve stress. The void cannot be filled with quantities of things we acquire. May be the solution lies not in the quantity of things that we consume but in the quality of attention that we pay to the world.
In my poetry and art I try to create the images that are concrete observations. I beleive that careful, unobtrusive observation makes images unique, singled out, and thus artistic. At the same time these images become typical, for the beholder, as a unique human being can relate only to that which is unique itself. It turns out that precise observation does not create a gap between the artist and the audience; on the contrary, it forms the image that embraces an entire world reflected as in a drop of water. On the one hand, each spectator is reflected in the multifaceted mirror of this image and on the other, the image preserves its concrete integrity.
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every wave
weaves sunbeams
into sand
Natalia L. Rudychev
Lilliput Review #156
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