Poster Image
$20
Item#: 2013SYR09
Purchase Details
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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Harvested Corn And
poster information
Description
Harvested corn and
red leaves of autumn whisper
cornucopia
Autumn is my favorite season, so I wanted the haiku to reflect that. Central New York is very colorful. I wrote this haiku while traveling the Finger Lakes area when the trees were in full bloom. The oranges, reds, and browns were robust.
I felt honored to be selected. A lot of people submit their haiku and your chances of being selected are one in that many, so it's also exciting to be a part of that group.
The students at SU always do a great job with their illustrations and I'm looking forward to seeing the end results.
Thanks to everyone who supports the Syracuse Poster Project.
I chose this haiku because it immediately put an image in my mind. It took me back to the first time I stepped foot in Syracuse about four years ago in August. I was captivated by the scenery, especially by the sea of red leaves in autumn. It was really beautiful. The happy figure in the image reflects the way I feel whenever the seasons begin to change the leaves to red, orange, yellow.
The image is drawn using a mix of pencil and paint, and then edited digitally in Photoshop. I dotted the landscape with red trees and filled the sky with puffy clouds for the background. I wanted to enlarge the figure to show how great the autumn landscape in Syracuse can make a person feel.