from the beginning i had the desire and the intention to illuminate my verse. in 1984 we settled in scarborough . there i began working on my illuminated verse. i bought the windsor newton wc paints, some good brushes and some archers wc paper.
i was already very attracted to a very short verse form. i liked the economy of language. i liked limiting the verse to the most necessary words. in 7th grade i was introduced to haiku. i liked the three lines. i liked the meter. i choose to limit my verse to a three line 17 syllable form. i wrote long prose and open verse in my journals while traveling. i put myself to the task of reviewing my journals and pulling from them the essence that could be expressed in my chosen verse form.
i did a few paintings with verse on them. i was most pleased with this small painting that i did on an 8 1/2 X 11 sheet of typing paper.
the work is my observations of the connections i experience in my environment. here the bird is the witness that the water the elephants drink, is the same that children play in.
after i discovered C.K. Bliss. i began using more and more symbols in the paintings so eventually i chose not to use text verse.
in the 90's i began matching the verse to paintings, and did some paintings to go with the verse, and vice versa. i spent a decade or so matching the paintings with verse to publish as a collection. the collection went through several transitions before i decided on the 2013 edition.
most of the pages of that edition are posted on my facebook onecloud page.
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Hi Martin! I’d like to share this particular piece on Three Things Weekly if you wouldn’t mind?
Martin-I know nothing about art--so much of this is way above me but I enjoyed the Haiku mixed with images. I often thought of verse + music but was never enough of a composer to pull it off. John Trudell had the gift. Glad to come and see your site. I'll be back.