doyou haiku || Liz Payne

cheerful shapes pop fresh
and forward in space with lines
lovingly sewn through.











Liz Payne is from Australia and has one of the most beautiful Instagram pages I've seen. Sewn block prints on paper?! yes please. Painted fabric with french knots and running stitches? Okay! I feel like we should be friends. She has a store where you can buy prints and original art objects.

doyou haiku|| is a feature series of contemporary artists that I find inspiring. haiku forces me to boil my thoughts down to some essentials and still allow the work to speak for itself.

doyou haiku || Doris Salcedo

delicate and sharp.

prickly but remains unseen

our losses, our hopes.

disremembered. 2014 (made with silk and needles)

disremembered. detail. 2014 (made with silk and needles)

Doris Salcedo is definitely an art-star and has an impressive, varied and prolific body of work. Her work uses common materials and everyday objects to raise questions about loss both on an individual and universal level. Her works are moving, poignant and completely beautiful.

doyou haiku|| is a feature series of contemporary artists that I find inspiring. haiku forces me to boil my thoughts down to some essentials and still allow the work to speak for itself.

doyou haiku || Tim Knowles

drawing with the wind

can seem abstract, but it's not.

trees do it for you.

Dragon Spruce 2012

Dragon Spruce installation 2012

Oak on Easel #1 2005

Oak on Easel #1 2005

Weeping Willow on circular panel 2005

Weeping Willow installation 2014

Kielder Forest Walk - An Attempt to walk in a straight line through the forest for 8hrs

Tim Knowles is obviously an outdoor enthusiast and a versatile artist who makes trees draw, creates videos, photos and goes where the wind takes him to explore his natural environment in clever and intriguing ways. Lots more to see on his website.

doyou haiku|| is a feature series of contemporary artists that I find inspiring. haiku forces me to boil my thoughts down to some essentials and still allow the work to speak for itself.

doyou haiku || benjamin shine

smokey tutu ghosts;

drapey, fluffy sheer paintings

delicately dance in.

these works by Benjamin Shine are  made of tulle and are probably what walking into a watercolor painting feels like. it has the immediacy and effortlessness of watercolor (and dancing) but we all know that none of those are effortless!

doyou haiku|| is a feature series of contemporary artists that I find inspiring. haiku forces me to boil my thoughts down to some essentials and still allow the work to speak for itself.

doyou haiku || thoka maer

days we never knew 
we had jitter before us,
softly, silly joy.

National Make a Wish Day

National Reach As High As You Can Day

National Pencil Day

National Find a Rainbow Day

National Pet Day

Thoka Maer is new to the United States and recently started National What Day?, a tumblr of illustrations recognizing the obscure national recognized days we have here. 

doyou haiku|| is a feature series of contemporary artists that I find inspiring. haiku forces me to boil my thoughts down to some essentials and still allow the work to speak for itself.

doyou haiku || william forsythe

negotiations
make accidental dances.
avoid or embrace.

william forsythe is a visual artist and choreographer with lots more "choreographic objects" to view on his website. 

doyou haiku|| is a feature series of contemporary artists that I find inspiring. haiku forces me to boil my thoughts down to some essentials and still allow the work to speak for itself.

doyou haiku || christiane lohr

thickets rebuilt to
tickle my nose with whispy,
gasps. watch where you step.

christiane lohr seems to be a collector first and foremost. her selections and organization of her drawings and sculpture create a powerful look into a unnatural nature. her website is beautiful and many of her shows and installs can be found there. she has several artist books as well.

doyou haiku|| is a feature series of contemporary artists that I find inspiring. haiku forces me to boil my thoughts down to some essentials and still allow the work to speak for itself.

doyou haiku || jon carling

fine lines between your
childhood and your adulthood
gather momentum.

jon carling makes MANY pen and pencil drawings and other things (like videos, animations, and band posters) and his imagination seems unending.

doyou haiku|| is a feature series of contemporary artists that I find inspiring. haiku forces me to boil my thoughts down to some essentials and still allow the work to speak for itself.

doyou haiku || sarah nance

nuances of time

glimmer & shift without our

knowing our blindness.

(i missed you) for twenty-nine years, 2012

silk string, evaporated saltwater, natural light

115.5 x 177.5 x 153 in.

marking time in light, 2014

reflective fabric tape, found stones, natural light

8.5 x 1.5 x 1494 in.

a line, the infinite, 2014 (detail)

sand, natural light

1 in.

lifting, settling of a mountain, 2013

foil sheet, natural light, water, wind

dimensions variable

lifting, settling of a mountain, 2013

foil sheet, natural light, water, wind

dimensions variable

sarah nance is an american artist and creates sculptures, drawings and installations. i appreciate her subtle sense of the physical world and making time visible. you can find and see more on her website and blog.

doyou haiku|| is a feature series of contemporary artists that I find inspiring. haiku forces me to boil my thoughts down to some essentials and still allow the work to speak for itself.

doyou haiku || sophie woodrow

ghostly trinkets dare

you to look away from an

aberration stare.

sophie woodrow's a successful ceramicist who lovingly and meticulously crafts her own mythical and ornate creatures that seem both historical and contemporary all at once.

doyou haiku|| is a feature series of contemporary artists that I find inspiring. haiku forces me to boil my thoughts down to some essentials and still allow the work to speak for itself.