Bindii Japanese Genre Poetry Group Meeting 1 October 2016
The Bindii group met at 12.30, at the Box Factory, 59 Regent
St South, Adelaide.
Belinda Broughton gave a comprehensive workshop on haiga.
She started with a PowerPoint presentation that included examples of the
different styles of haiga, from the traditional Japanese forms and simple brush
drawings to modern photo haiga and many other examples, such as collage. Belinda
also showed some of her own haiga in different styles, including some on rice
paper, and sketch book notes, and others that had been derived from her photos,
or sketched electronically in various computer programs.
Various viewpoints about haiga were discussed, chiefly
differing in relation to the closeness of text to image that each considered to
be desirable.
The workshop then went to the practical aspect of
constructing a haiga. Members were provided with blank sheets of paper and
writing instruments (pencil and black Texta). We were asked to make a series of
marks on the different sheets that depicted our own ideas of various states and
emotions. For our first effort, we were asked to imagine the flight of a
butterfly and make a track with our pencil across the paper showing that
flight. Other examples were: anger, silence, a violin playing over snow covered
hills, grass swaying in the wind.
After we each produced several sheets of sketched marks, we
were asked to match these with some haiku Belinda had provided. The aim was to
match the emotion depicted by the marks with the emotion expressed in the
selected matching haiku.
After members has spent some time working on their examples,
and writing the haiku on the image sheets, Belinda collected a couple of pieces
of work from each member and spread them out together for us to examine.
It was interesting to see and learn from the variety displayed.
The last section of the meeting involved members presenting
some images they had brought, and then writing some haiku/senryu on the
whiteboard, so that possible imagery could be discussed. Belinda made some
suggestions and other members of the group also threw in ideas.
This was a very successful information session for members.
Belinda was thanked for all the work she had put into this
presentation and the creative workshop she had devised.
Members and visitors
attending: Lee Bentley, Lynette Arden, Dawn Colsey, Maeve Archibald, Athena
Zaknic, Sara Abend-Sims, Belinda Broughton, Ervin Janek, Maria Roez, Rosemary
Winderlich, Julia Wakefield.
Apologies:
Margaret Fensom, Annie Fox.
Next Meeting:
Saturday 3 December. Details will be notified.
The meeting ended at 2.30
Lynette Arden
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