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PREMIUM BILINGUAL CALENDAR ENGLISH-SPANISH
2007 COLLECTIBLE

Cut and frame photos.

Introduction: Many moments we often pass by and take for granted. They vanish while our busy minds ruminate endlessly. All the while we miss what is right in front of us which is the present moment. Our duty should be to inhabit this precise second of existence. To this end the ancient art of haiku is ‘Zen’ for it takes these tangible concrete moments of time and crystallizes their essence in as few words as possible. The haijin (haiku poet) is thus constrained to relay a significant event in few syllables. Haiga is still a young art in the West but the principles established in Japan offer a good background for experimentation and development. When haiku are embedded in an art piece it is called haiga. In modern haiga the image and the haiku poem are coupled with a 'haiku-moment'. This haiku moment is described as a moment of transcendence. Original bilingual haiga by Minerva Bloom.