Opening Reception for Three Lines, Five Lines: Abstract and Haiga Art by Alice Bedard-Voorhees

Alice Bedard-Voorhees lives in Santa Fe, NM, and has lived in the West for over forty years. She is a poet, printer, painter, and mixed-media artist in a long-standing relationship with nature. This show includes abstract visual art based on tanka and haiku forms, and haiga works.

Tanka originated as a Japanese poetry of 31 syllables allowing the viewpoint of the poet, and are often based on romance and longing. Haiku poetry is best known for 17 syllables or three lines whose intent is to capture a moment. Last, when a poet writes a haiku and “marries it to a visual image,” that form is known as haiga. In each of these forms, there has traditionally been a strong connection to nature.

As written poems, there is a great attraction for the challenge of exactness in haiku and tanka. Turning to the shapes based on the syllables of both forms inspire the abstracts in this show. Additionally, the merge of poetry and the visual in haiga is both challenging and enormously satisfying.

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Title: Three Lines, Five Lines OH: Abstract and Haiga Art

Dates for Opening and Talk: Wed. Sept. 3, 2025, 6-8pm, brief talk at 6:30pm