Poster Image
$20
Item#: 2004SYR15
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.
You also receive…
An information page with photos of the artist and poet, and hand-written comments from each.
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Poem Inspiration Location
Silver Drops of Rain
poster information
Description
silver drops of rain
suddenly, a bright garden
of umbrellas blooms
This has a very specific Syracuse connection. I was at the Civic Center, and I was up on the second or third floor, up high, and I was looking out the windows, those gorgeous magnificent windows. And it was drab and gray, and it started to drizzle, and people were milling around, and suddenly umbrellas started popping open. And from where I was looking down, it was just a big, well, like a garden of flowers. Suddenly there was color everywhere. And it was really pretty and just visually striking.
The haiku was very colorful, and reading it, I could picture a fun scene. I really wanted it to be playful, and wanted it to celebrate spring.
I try to keep my work whimsical—lots of animals. With the worms, I was trying to think of something other than people that would enjoy being outside.
I like the way it turned out—the poster quality of it, that it's so easy to read. I love clean lines, and I seem to find that with poster art.
I redid it six or seven times before I started to be happy with the outcome. The first few times, I was not using pen. I was using brushes for the outlining, and it did not read well. Eventually I learned how to work out the kinks.