Mission Statement Impossible

All seven daily haiku from Haiku Andy 10/10/22 - 10/16/22

Oct 17, 2022

Sometimes I feel like this haiku postcard project is missing an artist’s statement, that mission-statement-esque thing artists write to explain why they painted this series of pictures, what concepts they were exploring. Something to hang on the gallery wall or to include in an NEA application.

I did write some things ten-plus years ago, at the outset, about how a written card is an artifact and why that's kind of cool, and have written things since, like how all the postcards together form a singular, if dispersed, objet d'art, because no artist statement is complete without at least some gratuitous French.

As is often the case in my life, I don't really understand why I do things, what strange engines drive me forward. If pressed, I could come up with a narrative that sounds halfway reasonable. But again, that would be a narrative, a construct by definition.

This thing is a mystery to me, but I trust it's meaningful, that I have my reasons, even if I don’t know what they are. And when someone writes back, thanking me for the haiku and how it made their day…

Well, all I can say is, mission accomplie…

Et voila, here are the week’s haiku, and their destinations.