Monkey Sox: Introduction

Note: As of next week, I'll be posting my Illustration Friday submissions here on Monkey Sox. Previous submissions (December 2007-January 18, 2008, can be viewed in the archives of My Hermitude (now reserved as my woodblock printmaking blogsite). View comments on "Socks," the submission for the IF theme, "Plain" may also be found there.


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Illustration Friday Theme: Plain
Artist: Debra Woolard Bender
Title: Socks
Medium: Digital
Materials: Paint Shop Pro; painted using mouse
Category: Painterly (Style: expressionism)

chill morning—
we all go to dancing
on the roof of Hell

DW Bender
haiku, January 2008
alludes to a haiku by Kobayashi Issa (1763 -1827):

世の中は地獄の上の花見哉
yo [no] naka wa jigoku no ue no hanami kana

in this world
over Hell, we promenade,
gazing at flowers

Issa

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