Parallel Universe
[Photographic negative]
Copyright © 2018 by Debbie Strange. All rights reserved.

 

 

Tracery
[Photographic negative]
Copyright © 2018 by Debbie Strange. All rights reserved.

 

 

Otherness
[Photographic negative]
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Sea Anemone
[Photographic negative]
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Succulents
[Photographic negative]
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Teasel Seed Heads
[Photographic negative]
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Wildwood
[Photographic negative]
Copyright © 2018 by Debbie Strange. All rights reserved.

 

Artist’s Commentary

These images are from my series, The Other Side of Light, which juxtaposes the real with the surreal by exploring the light that is found in the shadows of photographic negatives, encouraging the viewer to find the extraordinary behind the ordinary.

 

Debbie Strange

is an award-winning short-form poet, haiga artist, and photographer, whose work has been translated and widely published internationally. Debbie’s creative passions help her manage chronic illness, connecting her more closely to the world and to herself. She is the author of Warp and Weft: Tanka Threads (Keibooks, 2015) and the sequel, Three-Part Harmony: Tanka Verses (Keibooks, 2018), as well as the haiku chapbook, A Year Unfolding (Folded Word, 2017). Please visit her publication archive for further information and to view hundreds of haiga:

https://debbiemstrange.blogspot.ca

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

⚡ Coming Undone, haibun in KYSO Flash (Issue 6, Fall 2016)

⚡ The Poetry of Birds, slideshow reading on YouTube of more than a dozen of the artist’s haiga

⚡ The Tanka of Debbie Strange, an interview by Catherine MacDonald in Portage and Slain (30 April 2016)

⚡ Haiga of Debbie Strange at The Haiku Foundation (includes 39 award-winning images with text)