About Photography and Haiku

The haiku is a style of japanese poem that had its highest point in the XVII century through the poet Matsuo Basho, and whose objective is -if it has an objective- to express with only 17 phonetic syllables, displayed in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables each, a state of mind or an event that is happening between the one who describes it and his surroundings.

The haiku is the happening itself. As a living organism, you have to understand its essence, and as such, it does not admit a mere intelectual comprehension. No academic dissection will give us information about it. Perhaps the intuition, or to let yourself be carried away by its image, may be the means to reach it.

There is no previous search. There is no premeditated elaboration, nor posterior correction. The language used in the haiku is so simple and direct as the experience that caused it. It is not written through the intelect, nor it is motivated by a passional event. Words are barely the necessary ones to translate, incompletely, the sensation experimented. You get a subtle message of what is perceived, as a dictated that has always been there and that suddenly emerges interlacing both the subject and the situation, fusing themselves, until both of them disappear from the scene.

And in that empty scene, the one who expresses is Life itself.

According to the photographs, besides being simple, there is not much more to say, except that it was truly essential for the camera to act as an extention of the haiku written in a tiny notebook, and that this one acted as a sensitive material where an image was also imprinted.

That who expressed Itself through this works, needed both means to flower.

And yet, one is left with the feeling that all this is as incomplete and ineffable as when you pretend to tell others a dream.