Well, it comes down to this... a Happy Christmas and Prosperous New Year to you all. This year I'm again trying another alternative to our formerly standard news-of-the-family letter. Recently I was reviewing the haiku [short poems in a style based upon a traditional Japanese form] from my major art project of the year and I realized that much of my life was leaking through them. In a way they had became a diary - though perhaps a rather surrealist one. So with suggestions from all the family I have chosen thirty or so to share here. Interspersed with them on the following pages are electronic copies of the Christmas cards we made by collaging old Christmas wrapping paper with found images and other materials. Cards were made by my son Julian (b.1984), by two of my daughters, Carol (b.1986) and Danielle (b.1989) and of course I made many myself. |