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05-26-2009, 10:15 AM
Mother and daughter
Art, fun, words, images. Crime?
Vigilante verse
The mother and daughter solicit the poems -- composed in the oft-parodied but culturally durable style of classical Japanese verse (five syllables, followed by seven, followed by five more) -- from friends, family and neighbors. The haikus then are silk-screened onto "recycled" political yard signs gathered during recent elections, and the signs are placed back onto city neutral grounds in mass volume in the dead of night.
The messages offered to passers-by vary in tone and style but are uniformly pro-New Orleans, pro-culture and pro-fun.
"Guerrilla Haiku is an underground conspiracy of anonymous artistic operatives bent on injecting New Orleans with poetic intent," the mother says. "We are performing a poetic intervention for a city in crisis."
Read more:
http://www.nola.com/rose/index.ssf/2009/05/post_21.html
Art, fun, words, images. Crime?
Vigilante verse
The mother and daughter solicit the poems -- composed in the oft-parodied but culturally durable style of classical Japanese verse (five syllables, followed by seven, followed by five more) -- from friends, family and neighbors. The haikus then are silk-screened onto "recycled" political yard signs gathered during recent elections, and the signs are placed back onto city neutral grounds in mass volume in the dead of night.
The messages offered to passers-by vary in tone and style but are uniformly pro-New Orleans, pro-culture and pro-fun.
"Guerrilla Haiku is an underground conspiracy of anonymous artistic operatives bent on injecting New Orleans with poetic intent," the mother says. "We are performing a poetic intervention for a city in crisis."
Read more:
http://www.nola.com/rose/index.ssf/2009/05/post_21.html