Haiku Paired with Fine Art Photographs

Karen is grateful and excited to pair her fine art photography with haiku poetry distilling the noise around us into simplicity, brevity, and truth.

Karen is a lifelong visual artist, writer, and poet finding inspiration by intentionally looking, listening, and connecting. She feels humbled and deeply inspired by the beauty and power of nature including human nature, in all its cycles. In our chaotic world of humanity in all its variations, Karen is drawn to authenticity, kindness, and love, and speaks up against injustice, hatred and violence that so sadly and broadly exists.

In a special exhibit associated with In Life, a film made possible by the Law Stroud Foundation, Karen exhibited a series of seven beautifully presented paired haikus at the Decouvert Fine Art gallery in Rockport, MA (Aug 30 - Sept 15, 2024).

Each image is printed using pigment dye inks on museum quality Epson Cold Press Bright paper.  The image size is 12 ¼ by 18 ¼ inches.

The frames are 19 by 28 inches custom built by Peter Holton.  They are North American Cherry and finished with Danish furniture oil.  The 8-ply matting is museum quality along with the backing.  The glass is Tru Vue UV protective and anti-reflective. 

Karen’s works at Decouvert Fine Art

Each haiku is letter press printed on fine art watercolor paper using a dark warm grey ink.  The printing is done by master printer Elias Roustom, EMLetterpress.

The underlined titles below are available in the hight quality exhibit frames:

o   muse you are a light

o   let us go now

o   safe passage said she

o   days to years it goes

o   angels among us

o   seed to seed it goes

o   darkness settles in

The atmosphere at the exhibit was amazing.

Custom Framed Haiku and Photo

Karen and Peter welcome the opportunity to make additional framed works. You may request framed versions of any of the paired haikus that can be viewed in the collection of Haiku Peace Cards.

Framing may be of custom size. The two shown here are available.

Please contact us if you are interested in discussing your wish.