now in sad autumn

Now in sad autumn
As I take my darkening path
a solitary bird
-Basho

The first part of this project was to create thumbnails for each line of the haiku that would represent the entirety of the line with the emotional content.

Initial thumbnails (refined)

   Now in sad autumn

   As I take my darkening path

   A solitary bird

First set images created through mark making.

Now in sad autumn

As I take my darkening path

A solitary bird

Refined construction of images

   Now in sad Autumn

   As I take my darkening path

   A solitary bird

As I worked on the last set of images I started to use marks that related more in shape with the thumbnails than I had previously.  The initial set of images using marks were created using a linear tool so even if i wasn't drawing with it the images still appear to be drawn.  Switching to shape orientated marks gives each image more cohesion and takes the images to where they appear to be within themselves singular and whole.