Episode 22: Haiga Gallery

Posted by on Sunday, January 1, 2012 · 12 Comments 

Haiga GalleryGet on board for an exciting trip. Destination HAIGA. Donna, Al and Anita Virgil have packed classical and contemporary haiku, senryu and tanka with striking visual accompaniments — many with a twist.

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12 Responses to “Episode 22: Haiga Gallery”
  1. Paul Hodder says:
    January 2, 2012 at 6:07 am

    What a beautiful way to start the new year. The addition of vision and sound really does add to the experience. The quality of the verse and art is perfectly matched to the music. I can’t imagine how much time was spent making this.
    Very well done. I’ve just realised that I haven’t made a New Year’s resolution; perhaps it could be to try and emulate some of this work!

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  2. Bruce R. Boynton says:
    January 2, 2012 at 2:36 pm

    Al & Donna, This is a visual, a poetic and a technical tour de force. Absolutely brilliant.

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  3. Karla Decker says:
    January 2, 2012 at 3:27 pm

    Life changing! Absolutely beautiful!

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  4. Liam Wilkinson says:
    January 2, 2012 at 9:47 pm

    Truly astounding! An honour to see my work included in such a marvellous production. Happy new year :)

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  5. Paula Moore says:
    January 3, 2012 at 1:24 am

    This is very inspirational to those of us new to the genre of Japanese short form poetry – Haiku and Haiga in particular.
    You have pulled from so many sources – written, musical and visual to create this haunting piece. What a great way to start the new year!

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  6. carol Raisfeld says:
    January 4, 2012 at 12:09 am

    Mesmerizing! The elegance of the video presentation, the pairings of image, verse and music is stunning.
    Also, a treat to see Andy Virgil’s amazing work there.
    I’m honored to be part of it. Thank you, Al and Donna!

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  7. Merrill Ann Gonzales says:
    January 5, 2012 at 2:47 am

    I finally was able to clear the decks around here so that I could enjoy this presentation without interruption. Haiga, so dear to my life…this is a great joy to see it presented so well and so completely. As I bring haiga into the community I’m delighted to have this video to share with others so they also may find the joys in their own lives presented in such an elegant and simply human expression. Many thanks for a marvelous gift.

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  8. Diane Michell says:
    January 6, 2012 at 7:45 am

    Thank-you for that. We are such visual creatures and you put the words and the images so beautifully together. It seemed to make the words more powerful when seen with the beauty of the world around us or that which has been created.

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  9. Jerry Dreesen says:
    January 6, 2012 at 3:36 pm

    Absolutely wonderful. Congratulations, all, on an amazing work of video art.

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  10. Cor van den Heuvel says:
    January 8, 2012 at 5:27 am

    Take a bow. Take several hundred bows. Groundbreaking and explosively exciting– exploding the poetic genres of haiku, senryu, and tanka into new visual and audio ultra/outer realms of creativity. Congratulations.

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  11. John Garrett says:
    January 16, 2012 at 4:57 am

    This is truly beautiful. I love the way the poems and images flow so naturally from one to the next. I liked the pace too: how did you decide on how fast to go? How fast do you suppose the poems would flow in in a night of renga with Basho and his buddies? I must admit that I found it a bit overwhelming too.

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