Showing posts with label video haiku. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video haiku. Show all posts

Saturday, October 3, 2015

What we're doing to stay afloat--the book!!




Yes, it is true, by the end of October 2015, What we're doing to stay afloat will be available in book form. 


The end of September and it was all done: the pages checked and double-checked and the cover proofed in emails and phone calls back and forth between publisher, designers, copy-editor and me. Ten days earlier the version I'd corrected vanished from the book designer's in-box; for some reason her email server would not accept messages from any of my accounts. We waded through the details on the phone and I sent my marked-up copy from my partner's email account. Success! One more version to proof, which we did, and then everything was sent off to the printer. Now we wait, and sometime towards the end of October there will be a book, a tangible object to touch and to hold, to open, to leaf through, to read.

Where can you get a copy? You can email me, leave me a message in the comments section of this blog or via facebook messenger, or order a copy directly from Indigo Books here  https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/what-were-doing-to-stay/9781897426753-item.html
or Nimbus Publishing here http://www.nimbus.ca/What-Were-Doing-to-Stay-Afloat-P7335.aspx



Meanwhile, I'm also planning, building a website for, and soon will be installing my first solo video installation, entitled Flows (Given Water).  The show features video haikus of meltwater, looped projections of shifting inter-tidal zones, and enormous silent projections of moon jellies propelling themselves through deep green seawater. The weather turns rainy, and my dreams, too, are submerged in water greens and dim anxieties: is any of it good enough? Have I worked through my ideas fully enough? Will others see what I see, or wish to stop and muse in these spaces of drift and damp? I hope, and will know more in time.

https://givenwater.wordpress.com/

Water, water everywhere--and yes, at the show, I'll be offering water (locally sourced, of course,) to drink!


Sunday, December 14, 2014

How beautiful the half-obscured world (video)



Simple pleasures: to watch how the fog shifts and moves, the light rises and falls. I make a minestrone soup, do the laundry, make a pot of tea--with every gesture relishing the quiet, the calm air, the mirrored surface of the sea. A loon floats in the cove at the front of the house and dives in the shallows. Lines of current zigzag outward, carrying the tide out past the islands. Blue clouds, bluer hills--how beautiful the half-obscured world.

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Incoming Tide



The tide: is it coming in or going
out? With every wave, the sea shifts, breathes.
and so do we.

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Sound of Running Water 2 (more video haiku)


Sound of Running Water iv (Ice and Bubbles)

Sound of Running Water v (Whirling)

Sound of Running Water vi (Splash!)

Sound of Running Water (Video Haiku)

Sound of Running Water 1

Sound of Running Water II (Cliff Stream)


Sound of Running Water III (Tiny Bubbles)


Notes:  If a short video were to be a haiku, what would its characteristics be? A short observation, a subtle surprise, a lovely sound?  For now, I'm going to work with such a definition, but if you have other suggestions, by all means let me know!