Poster Image
$20
Item#: 2012SYR09
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11x17-inches, printed on heavy weight (100-pound) Hammermill cover paper. We package each print with a piece of chipboard in a clear plastic sleeve.
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An information page with photos of the artist and poet, and hand-written comments from each.
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Poem Inspiration Location
Bus stop shuffling feet
poster information
Description
Bus stop shuffling feet
when doors open, winter enters
glasses fog, cheeks burn
I teach communication design at SU, and now am also teaching entrepreneurship classes. I wrote this haiku after watching the students get on and off the bus to the Warehouse in winter, which is a good chunk of the time that they spend here.
Taking the bus has a way of humbling you. You are not in a car by yourself. You are with other people. You feel the contrast between the luxury of driving a car and traveling with the masses. It's like a stage. Here the weather and that stage come together.
The stinging of the cheeks is a defrosting. They don't sting when you are outside because they are numb. When you get on the bus, which is where you want to go when it's cold outside, you warm up. That stinging pain on your cheeks is a good pain because you are in a good place.
Being an SU student, I've been on a lot of Centro buses, especially going to the ComArt Building. I've also taken the bus downtown, where you see all kinds of people, not just SU students”people living life, actually taking the bus to work. It's a huge relief, coming into a warm bus from outside. Even riding the bus, when someone else comes on, you feel the chill as soon as the doors open. It makes you grateful for the heat.
For the illustration, I had models. And it actually is a photo of downtown in the background. I did this digitally mostly. I sketched it out with traditional media, pencil on board. I used my reference photos to illustrate the characters. I painted some in water color. Then I scanned it into Photoshop, put in the photo, and painted the rest digitally. I love adding detail, just continuing, in a stream of consciousness.