A Haiku of Flat "Love" Balloons
We were asked to create a wordless haiku, something that captures the flash, or a brief event of feelings and emotions, through a singular, wordless representation — in the same way that the traditional poem captures the kairotic in 17 syllables. In addition, we were asked to pick something that captures the acute/obtuseness of words, as defined by Ulmer — words that have generic "obtuse" definitions, but will conjure up different feelings for various people (an acute definition) — and employ divergent thinking to create something that values brevity and aesthetic design. I (sort of) cheated by making something that combines four letters to make a word. However, in defense of my choice: what word is more varied in definition, from person-to-person, than LOVE is? Love is the best thing in the world to some while, to others, love is heartbreak; something that was lost long ago. As such, I didn't want people to misconstrue the heart-shaped balloons as just hearts, but instead as what they actually were intended to represent: LOVE. This image was created using Illustrator and, in the spirit of brevity, took about 20 minutes.