5th Jane Reichhold Haiga Contest (Second Place)

The results are out! So delightfully surprised and honored to win second place in the Mixed Media category of the 5th Annual Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Contest. I remember corresponding with Jane R. when I just started writing haiku. She was such a sweet and generous poet.

Thank you so much to

Michael Rehling

and

Ron Moss

. Congratulations to all the winners and honorable mentions! Full details here - http://www.haikuhut.com/FifthAnnualReichholdContest.pdf...

Here's my mixed media art below.

mother's handwriting

until now I still can't

read her

Judge's commentary:

Christine has given us a tapestry of collaged art that works beautifully with the accompanying senryu. There’s a feeling of great depth of emotion between Mother and daughter. The individual of the collage feel like experiences of family happenings, favourite recipes and feasts of comforting food. This binds the senryu to the collaged image and to me, there’s a feeling of resilience and determination to get through difficult times. Love will find a way and

congratulations to Christina for a fine evocative senyru, which is brilliantly presented for us to contemplate our relationships to each other.

Black and White Challenge

 Haigaonline (Vol. 12 Issue 2, December 2011)
This may be viewed under "contemporary haiga."

     When I found out that Haigaonline was accepting submissions for their black and white challenge, I was excited. I have this black and white photo which means so much to me. The actual challenge for me was to come up with a haiku that was strong enough to make the absence of color on the image significant.

     If you'd like to learn more about black and white haiga, read Jim Swift's article, Black and White Photography, which can be found under haiga workshop in the December 2011 issue of Haigaonline. I suggest that you check out featured artists. I'm sure you'll be inspired by the exquisite works of an'ya and Ron C. Moss.