Concrete Haiku, Mix Exhibition,
PS Mirabel Gallery,
Manchester, UK, 2013:
At this time PS Mirabel was something of a fledgling gallery running more on goodwill that money. The main gallery space hard had a hard life, particularly its painted concrete floor, it was chipped and scrapped already revealing glimpses of the material in question.
PS Mirabel Gallery,
Manchester, UK, 2013:
At this time PS Mirabel was something of a fledgling gallery running more on goodwill that money. The main gallery space hard had a hard life, particularly its painted concrete floor, it was chipped and scrapped already revealing glimpses of the material in question.
In the past I had already worked with both Haiku and concrete poetry, so what better opportunity could I have that to combine to two literary forms. All that was left for me to do, apart from carving each letter of the poem through numerous layers of paint to the concrete below, was write the Haiku itself, but what should it's subject be? Once again the ideas behind the main piece answered the question. The exhibition was named 'Mix' after the builders nickname for concrete. A mix is also a form of recipe so my Haiku became the recipe for the perfect concrete mix or, to use the technical term, 'slump'.