Alice, haiku ACEO

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Metallic, interference, pearlescent, and iridescent acrylic; metallic pigment; iridescent medium; gloss varnish; and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Bright blue handmade paper with metallic gold leaf design is adhered to the back of the card (each back is quite different). The back is initialed and dated by the artist.

3.5 x 2.5 inches (standard ACEO size) with rounded corners.

The cut-paper haiku reads:

Alice turns sideways
moves away from the mirror,
Alice's idea

along the axis,
Alice lays a railway track
Alice walks along

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True to Scale, haiku ACEO

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Metallic, interference, pearlescent, and iridescent acrylic; metallic pigment; iridescent medium; gloss varnish; and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Bright blue handmade paper with metallic gold leaf design is adhered to the back of the card (each back is quite different). The back is initialed and dated by the artist.

3.5 x 2.5 inches (standard ACEO size) with rounded corners.

The cut-paper haiku reads:

stars and star-systems,
Nature works true to scale,
trees, birds and fishes

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Longitude, haiku ACEO

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Metallic, interference, pearlescent, and iridescent acrylic; metallic pigment; iridescent medium; gloss varnish; and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Bright blue handmade paper with metallic gold leaf design is adhered to the back of the card (each back is quite different). The back is initialed and dated by the artist.

3.5 x 2.5 inches (standard ACEO size) with rounded corners.

The cut-paper haiku reads:

needle pointed east
to plot the variation
change of longitude,

finding longitude,
the stuff that dreams were made of
the moon's eclipses.

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Clockwork, haiku ACEO

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Metallic, interference, pearlescent, and iridescent acrylic; metallic pigment; iridescent medium; gloss varnish; and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Bright blue handmade paper with metallic gold leaf design is adhered to the back of the card (each back is quite different). The back is initialed and dated by the artist.

3.5 x 2.5 inches (standard ACEO size) with rounded corners.

The cut-paper haiku reads:

its simplicity,
in the nature of clockwork,
to keep time at sea

given a trial
intricate mechanism
miscalculated

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A Week of Haiku: Week Three (Insects), finished set

This is an original, one-of-a-kind set of seven mixed-media collage ACEOs ("Art Card, Edition and Original"). It is Week Three in the project series "A Week of Haiku." The theme is Insects. A new card is created each day for a week, beginning this week on Monday; on Sunday the seven cards of the week are combined into a set. This set is from February 26 to March 4, 2007.

Media: Metallic acrylic, copper leaf, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper. The back of each card is decorated with dark blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper, as shown in the first photo. Each card is initialed, dated, and numbered by the artist.

Size: 3.5 x 2.5 inches (standard ACEO size) with rounded corners.

Each of the seven cards comes in a protective plastic sleeve and the set is in an archival kraft-stock envelope with a button + string closure. The envelope has a decorative label of papers, and gold leaf.

Buy the set from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com.

A Week of Haiku: Week Three, Sunday

A Week of Haiku: Week Three, Sunday's Card (card seven).

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, copper leaf, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Dark blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper is adhered to the back of the card (the same paper as used in Week One). The back is initialed and dated by the artist.

3.5 x 2.5 inches (standard ACEO size) with rounded corners.

The cut-paper haiku reads:

(Grasshoppers, Crickets)
(Damselflies and Dragonflies)
(Butterflies and Moths)

A new card will be created and posted each day, this week beginning on Monday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com.

A Week of Haiku: Week Three, Saturday

A Week of Haiku: Week Three, Saturday's Card (card six).

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, copper leaf, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Dark blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper is adhered to the back of the card (the same paper as used in Week One). The back is initialed and dated by the artist.

3.5 x 2.5 inches (standard ACEO size) with rounded corners.

The cut-paper haiku reads:

They are everywhere--
curious shapes, strange habits
entomologists

A new card will be created and posted each day, this week beginning on Monday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com.

A Week of Haiku: Week Three, Friday

A Week of Haiku: Week Three, Friday's Card (card five).

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, copper leaf, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Dark blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper is adhered to the back of the card (the same paper as used in Week One). The back is initialed and dated by the artist.

3.5 x 2.5 inches (standard ACEO size) with rounded corners.

The cut-paper haiku reads:

web in the corner
the insect situation
the silken networks

A new card will be created and posted each day, this week beginning on Monday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com.

A Week of Haiku: Week Three, Thursday

A Week of Haiku: Week Three, Thursday's Card (card four).

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, copper leaf, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Dark blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper is adhered to the back of the card (the same paper as used in Week One). The back is initialed and dated by the artist.

3.5 x 2.5 inches (standard ACEO size) with rounded corners.

The cut-paper haiku reads:

ballooning spiders
show their worth as architects
ingenious trappers

A new card will be created and posted each day, this week beginning on Monday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com.

A Week of Haiku: Week Three, Wednesday

A Week of Haiku: Week Three, Wednesday's Card (card three).

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, copper leaf, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Dark blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper is adhered to the back of the card (the same paper as used in Week One). The back is initialed and dated by the artist.

3.5 x 2.5 inches (standard ACEO size) with rounded corners.

The cut-paper haiku reads:

6. Pearl Crescent
14. Red-spotted Purple
20. Spring Azure

A new card will be created and posted each day, this week beginning on Monday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com.

A Week of Haiku: Week Three, Tuesday

A Week of Haiku: Week Three, Tuesday's Card (card two).

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, copper leaf, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Dark blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper is adhered to the back of the card (the same paper as used in Week One). The back is initialed and dated by the artist.

3.5 x 2.5 inches (standard ACEO size) with rounded corners.

The cut-paper haiku reads:

the last singer of
the high, thin, trilling song of
a departed choir,

for the cicadas
in a wingless condition
casings left clinging

A new card will be created and posted each day, this week beginning on Monday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com.

A Week of Haiku: Week Three, Monday

A Week of Haiku: Week Three, Monday's Card (card one).

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, copper leaf, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Dark blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper is adhered to the back of the card (the same paper as used in Week One). The back is initialed and dated by the artist.

3.5 x 2.5 inches (standard ACEO size) with rounded corners.

The cut-paper haiku reads:

victim of the bright
lures on summer evenings
lovely Luna Moth

A new card will be created and posted each day, this week beginning on Monday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com.

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Thursday

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Thursday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gold leaf, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

The back of the card is decorated with light blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background), and is initialed & dated by the artist.

3.5 x 2.5 inches (standard ACEO size) with rounded corners.

The cut-paper haiku reads:

listening to them,
the long lights and torn shadows
illumination

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Wednesday

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Wednesday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gold leaf, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

The back of the card is decorated with light blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background), and is initialed & dated by the artist.

3.5 x 2.5 inches (standard ACEO size) with rounded corners.

The cut-paper haiku reads:

bird architecture
strikingly manifested
curious mansion

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Tuesday

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Tuesday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gold leaf, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

The back of the card is decorated with light blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background), and is initialed & dated by the artist.

3.5 x 2.5 inches (standard ACEO size) with rounded corners.

The cut-paper haiku reads:

silvery lace-work
succession of silent pools,
winter clouds have bloomed

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Monday

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Monday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gold leaf, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

The back of the card is decorated with light blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background), and is initialed & dated by the artist.

3.5 x 2.5 inches (standard ACEO size) with rounded corners.

The cut-paper haiku reads:

for every flock that
tended to lull my senses
wheeling and twisting

lower as they passed
I met still more, farther on.
they emerge and glide

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Sunday

A Week of Haiku: Week Two, Sunday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gold leaf, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

The back of the card is decorated with light blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background), and is initialed & dated by the artist.

3.5 x 2.5 inches (standard ACEO size) with rounded corners.

The cut-paper haiku reads:

the close white water
their graceful rounded necks, the
mother-of-pearl

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com

A Week of Haiku: Week One, Saturday

A Week of Haiku: Week One, Saturday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Dark blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background) is adhered to the back of the card. The back is initialed and dated by the artist.

3.5 x 2.5 inches (standard ACEO size) with rounded corners.

The cut-paper haiku reads:

depth of the water
delicate in colorings
a thing of beauty.

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com

A Week of Haiku: Week One, Friday

A Week of Haiku: Week One, Friday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Dark blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background) is adhered to the back of the card. The back is initialed and dated by the artist.

3.5 x 2.5 inches (standard ACEO size) with rounded corners.

The cut-paper haiku reads:

young birds, however,
leave us very early. When
quite unexpected,

we looked in upon
the imagination; and
out of the orchard.

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com

A Week of Haiku: Week One, Thursday

A Week of Haiku: Week One, Thursday's Card.

This is an original, one-of-a-kind mixed-media collage ACEO ("Art Card, Edition and Original").

Regular and metallic acrylic, gloss varnish, and cut paper on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper.

Dark blue-on-blue handmade "Tibetan Cloud" print paper (shown in the background) is adhered to the back of the card. The back is initialed and dated by the artist.

3.5 x 2.5 inches (standard ACEO size) with rounded corners.

The cut-paper haiku reads:

could hear her humming,
she flew away, and was gone,
the earth with her mouth

A new card will be created and posted each day, beginning on Sunday. At the end of the week the seven cards will be packaged into a set, and will be available for sale from the haiku bird shop at etsy.com: haikubird.etsy.com