thereisnochicken

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Haikualizations® by Robert Metrick & Emily Waters

There is No Chicken…There is No Road to Cross… There is No Other Side is a compelling collection of artworks by Robert Metrick and Emily Waters that celebrate and subvert traditional conceptions of the haiku form. Metrick’s existential, absurd and contemplative poems, vaguely suggestive of haiku, are inscribed into Waters’ graphic and photographic images.

The artists draw from such variant sources as road signs, product warning labels, dictionaries, medieval mystery plays, corporate branding and the incessant chatter of the conscious mind. Language and image mesh and collide to transform physical and psychological landscapes of signs, symbols, people, places and objects into haikualizations®.