Wednesday,
December 28, 2011
“Year’s end,
all corners
of this floating world, swept.” ~ Basho
I have always been enamored of the Japanese Haiku. To me it seems like the purest of all poetry, simple in nature and yet very profound. So much said with so few words, so much feeling packed into such a condensed package. I try to achieve the same thing in my images. Some call it minimalist, I prefer “simple elegance” because it is so much more descriptive, like Haiku itself. Call it what you may, it is what appeal most to me when creating my body of work for it represents my purest vision.
This little poem is full of subtle meaning for the new year, sweep out the old, be ready for the new and don’t take anything too seriously. It also has a feeling of being at peace with the past and a looking forward to what is to come.
These beach houses, on the bluff, overlooking the sea have that lonely feeling the New Year seem to bring, coming as it does at the start of winter. Not an unpleasant feeling, but kind of a completeness mingled in with the solitude.
Enjoy,
Tom
