Welcome to the First
WHC~webWORKS Kukai
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CA/WHC webWORKS
Kukai,
a networked project between Charnwood
Arts and the World
Haiku Club, is an
opportunity for people to respond to a body of work by an individual artist, and
to engage with individual works which throw up challenges, suggest, beguile and
of course, illuminate the moment. There are no rules as such, and the
management, revision and editing of work is left largely to the individual.
To
begin this kukai, our friend and colleague, Mitsugu Abe, a pioneer in internet
photo-haiku through his Interactive Photo Haiku websites, selected nine pictures
from three artists, Peter Miller, Bob
Trubshaw, and Bryan Page.
Haiku
submissions to the kukai were judged with anonymity of the poets, by our three
mentors of WHCbeginners: an'ya (US), Alison Williams (UK) Sue Mill (AU).
Bryan
Page lives in the
market town of Loughborough in Charnwood. A regular collaborator with Charnwood
Arts, he is an accomplished illustrator with a special interest in historical
re-construction. It is a great pleasure to walk an area with him, and to hear
him interpret the signs of human impact on the built and natural environment. It
is magical to watch him 'raise the walls' and recreate the life and times of
these places with the tip of a pencil! Now retired from teaching, Bryan devotes
much of his time to his own projects.
Bob Trubshaw
is a Charnwood based photographer, writer and historian , who specialises in
pre-Roman and pre-Christian history, life, customs and practices in Britain.
Many of his black and white images were taken over a number of years to document
and celebrate places that he knows and loves -- often re-visiting them a number
of times. He is currently writing a number of books on his specialist subjects.
He lives in the Charnwood village of Wymeswold.
Peter
Miller is an
artist/printmaker based in Japan and exhibiting work internationally. It was
Peter's ready willingness to collaborate with Charnwood Arts in establishing an
on-line webWORKS Gallery of his prints that led to the idea for webWORKS Haiku.
A new gallery of Peter's work from the 'Snowscapes'
collection' will be open for haiku submissions at the start of the second
season of the project.
I would like to
thank all of the people who have had the generosity and interest to participate
in something which has been of great personal joy to watch unfold. This project
is ultimately what you have made it, and in my eyes that is something wonderful
and full of potential -- another fruit on the WHC tree!
Kevin Ryan
Director of Charnwood Arts
Director of Arts, World Haiku Club
Organization & Communication:
Kevin
Ryan, Director of Charnwood Arts,
WHC Arts Director
Sean
Clark, Web Developer, Charnwood
Arts; Web Design:
Cuttlefish.Com
Debi
Bender, Development Advisor, World
Haiku Club; Editor-in-Chief, World
Haiku Review
Artists/Photographers:
Peter
Miller, Japan, The
Kamakura Print Collection, Charnwood
Arts Exhibition
Bryan
Page, Loughborough, UK, Charnwood
Arts Exhibition
Bob
Trubshaw, Charnwood, UK, Indigo
Gallery, Charnwood
Arts Exhibition
Selector of images:
Mitsugu
(Mitty) Abe, JP, WHC Policy Advisor, Special Interest-Japan; Editor/Owner Photo-Haiku
Gallery
Haiku Judges:
an'ya,
US, Director & Editor WHCbeginners (haiku selections for Peter Miller's
images)
Alison
Williams UK, Mentor, WHCbeginners (haiku selections for Bob Trubshaw's images)
Sue
Mill, AU, Mentor, WHCbeginners (haiku selections for Bryan Page's images)
Design of WHC~webWORKs Webpage:
Ray
Rasmussen, Multimedia Director, World Haiku Review; Editor/Ower RaysWeb