Joshua Sellers words fused in Roberto Alborghetti’s Lacer/actions artworks: it’s an HAIGA
No clouds
the wind revealed
in tall grasses
Nessuna nuvola
il vento rivelato
nelle erbe alte
Pas des nuages
le vent révélè
dans les hautes herbes
Ninguna nube
el viento revelado
en las hierbas altas
“No clouds” is another result of my collaboration with musician, producer and poet Joshua Sellers, from West Memphis (Arkansas, USA). We had previously collaborated on a music video, for “Linger.” Now, in a different kind of collaboration, fusing Joshua ‘s words this time with my images – realistic pics of torn posters and urban signs – , we have presented a series of haiga: a combination of haiku and visual art. Here is the fourth of a series we have created so far. Poetry and my “Lacer/actions” artworks for a fascinating trip through imagination and states of mind… I took this image from a billboard’s ripped poster. Maybe unbelievable, but it’s true. ( 4 )
ABOUT HAIGA
Haiga is a style of Japanese painting based on the aesthetics of haikai, from which haiku poetry derives, which often accompanied such poems in a single piece. Like the poetic forms it accompanied, haiga was based on simple, yet often profound, observations of the everyday world. Stephen Addiss points out that “since they are both created with the same brush and ink, adding an image to a haiku poem was… a natural activity.”
Just as haiku often internally juxtapose two images, haiga may also contain a juxtaposition between the haiku itself and the art work. The art work does not necessarily directly represent the images presented in the haiku. Stylistically, haiga vary widely based on the preferences and training of the individual painter, but generally show influences of formal Kanō school painting, minimalist Zen painting, and Ōtsu-e, while sharing much of the aesthetic attitudes of the nanga tradition. Some were reproduced as woodblock prints. The subjects painted likewise vary widely, but are generally elements mentioned in the calligraphy, or poetic images which add meaning or depth to that expressed by the poem.
Watch the previous Haiga:
A Jar of Rainwater: the third Haiga+Lacer/actions art:
https://robertoalborghetti.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/haiku-and-visual-art-telling-a-jar-of-rainwater/
In a Spider Web: the second Haiga+Lacer/actions art:
Moonlit Sky: the first Haiga+Lacer/actions art:
Links to “Linger” videoclip by Joshua Sellers and Roberto Alborghetti
Earscapes Channel
Lacer/azioni Channel
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ROBERTO ALBORGHETTI 
This is so beautiful!! I love your collaborative work!
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what are dimensions of this piece?
Dear Barbara, thanks for your kind attention.
The dimension of the original artwork is 62×42.
It is a canvas (but without the Joshua Sellers words).
This image, as all my others 35.000 pictures, is a realistic image, coming from torn posters details. I hope to have given you the news you desired.
R.A.