Images of Me, and My Friend …

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I like having my friend, Puss in Boots with me when I’m out in public doing writing group things. He’s a calm fellow, Puss, never gets rowdy, he’s just there, colourful, but not loud with it.

The images of me aren’t so colourful, I tend to have more subdued ‘Autumn’ colours, while Puss is always dressed in his lovely bright colours. He has no voice, so I suppose the bright colours speak for him, to some extent.

In this photo, Puss in Boots was taking part in one of the Adelaide Plains Poets Festival of Words events. It is a visit to a particular art gallery, then a train trip to Adelaide and back. Attendees are encouraged to write creatively about art works that took their notice. It’s always a fun event, and yes, new poetry does get written, for sure!

This is one of the artworks that attracted my attention at the last Festival, and the poem I wrote on the train about the painting. I was thrilled to hear from the artist recently to tell me how much she enjoyed my poem, and that she’d been able to sell the painting.

Art and words go together well, I’ve always thought that, well I have for quite a while anyway. When I first heard of the Japanese Haiga, which is haiku displayed with an image, I fell in love with it. The image and words each add to the other, bringing much more thoughts into it all, for the viewer/reader … One day, I would like to publish a book of Haiga, but the cost of coloured images in books makes it expensive …

Something to put on my bucket list perhaps, or I could forget about an actual book, and do something online instead, where no expensive print photo needs to be printed, simply displayed on the screen with the words instead, as on this blog post, for my poem and the image from the Festival … Thoughts and ideas happening now, for sure …