Haibun:
My work uses the emotive quality of color to represent the feeling of a landscape. Lately I have been intrigued by shadows cast by moonlight or sunlight through deciduous trees. It is a way of showing a tree without actually showing the tree. In this case, I am seeing the effects of bright high noon sunlight filtering through my plum tree. The leaves are illuminated, changing from burgundy to red and orange.
“Shadows Through the Plum Tree”
colored pencil on paper, 40 inches high by 30 inches wide
Haiku:
sunlight filters through
shadows are cast, colors blaze
illuminating
