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 Mixing
nature with the human form
Anne Arbuthnot
with her haiku mixed with a photo of a garden bed.
Mansfield
literary artist Anne Arbuthnot likes to mix her writing with photography.
After years of loving books and writing about her inspirations, Anne
was sidetracked with education and a career in the city.
About three years ago she enquired about furthering her education with
Mansfield Adult Continuing Education (MACE) and has never looked back.
"Writing and reading was something I've always loved and I was
always one of those kids who had their head stuck in a book," she
said.
"I enrolled in a MACE course which was certificate four in professional
writing and editing.
"I thought this was something I could do to reconnect to this side
of my creativity so I did and I happily completed the certificate."
Anne started writing poetry and short stories and from this she came
across a form of poetry called haiku.
By mixing haiku with photography she came up with her pieces that depict
nature and the human form. She said this is controversial in the haiku
world because the idea is that poetry should be strong and stand alone.
"It is a structured style of writing, but it is very simple,"
Anne said. "It is about making an observation of nature that is
relative to the human condition. "It's amazing that something so
simple and straight forward which is taught at primary school level
can still be something which is extremely elegant. "Anne creates
her haiku and photography to give viewers inspiration. "To me that's
the way the world works," she said.
Having
recently travelled to Ireland, Anne has created some works using photographs
of Irish landmarks and landscapes. "Ireland has such a diverse
landscape with the pretty green, contrasting with an area called The
Burren which is like being on the moon," she said. "There
is nowhere else in the world to have a landscape like that". But
she has also produced a lot of her product by using the local surroundings
of Mansfield. "I get a lot of fulfilment out of it and its fortunate
that I live in such a beautiful place," she said.
Trying a new field of writing, Anne has recently finished writing two
plays for the short and sweet competition at the Victorian Arts Centre
in Melbourne. She said the plays run for 10 minutes with the aim of
generating an avenue for new writers to showcase their work.
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Photo
and editorial by Steve Kelly, Journalist at the Mansfield Courier
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