2006-7 Issa

The one hundred and eight 8” X 8” paintings in this project are based on haiku poems by Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828), who is considered to be one of the four greatest masters of the Japanese haiku tradition.  Issa’s short poems explore nearly all aspects of human experience with delightful brevity. In my selection of poems for this project I favored those that had qualities I would enjoy translating to visual form.

          - acrylic on paper         

          - the project is unpublished

  sample gallery of 24 images

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the artwork of Mark W. McGinnis

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