bus doodle
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egypturnashIn her bed of silk
lady Spider weeps winter
and spins her last world.
A little explanation is needed, I suppose.
For no obvious reason, I decided to read Lord Dunsanay's Pegāna stories on the bus today. They're his first published work, and show it; it's slow going. Lots of elliptical, fragmentary little legends about his own imagined pantheon.
Then, for no obvious reason, I found myself writing a haiku while waiting to make my connection. It probably has something to do with the fact that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yulicorn recently pointed to a brief explanation of the Classical Haiku Form. Above and beyond the 5/7/5 syllable pattern everyone knows, a True Haiku is supposed to contain a seasonal reference, and a conceptual discontinuity between the beginning and the end.
Why Spider? I'm not sure. I think it's related to a few previous drawings that came out of nowhere - one quite some time ago that was a botched attempt at illustrating the gift-from-my-subconscious line "When Spider created the world", and one more recently that was a half-spider half-woman who had on a blindfold. The latter made it into the bus doodles posts; the former didn't, because it just didn't work at all.
I suspect that if I created my own pantheon, Spider would be a major figure.
Also there was an attempt at a woman expelling a snake from her mouth, into the eagerly-waiting lips of her partner, as spun off fromjenwolf's ambiguious reading of the last sketch I posted. But it didn't quite work. I know the pose I want, but I may have to create photo reference or something...
lady Spider weeps winter
and spins her last world.
A little explanation is needed, I suppose.
For no obvious reason, I decided to read Lord Dunsanay's Pegāna stories on the bus today. They're his first published work, and show it; it's slow going. Lots of elliptical, fragmentary little legends about his own imagined pantheon.
Then, for no obvious reason, I found myself writing a haiku while waiting to make my connection. It probably has something to do with the fact that
yulicorn recently pointed to a brief explanation of the Classical Haiku Form. Above and beyond the 5/7/5 syllable pattern everyone knows, a True Haiku is supposed to contain a seasonal reference, and a conceptual discontinuity between the beginning and the end.Why Spider? I'm not sure. I think it's related to a few previous drawings that came out of nowhere - one quite some time ago that was a botched attempt at illustrating the gift-from-my-subconscious line "When Spider created the world", and one more recently that was a half-spider half-woman who had on a blindfold. The latter made it into the bus doodles posts; the former didn't, because it just didn't work at all.
I suspect that if I created my own pantheon, Spider would be a major figure.
Also there was an attempt at a woman expelling a snake from her mouth, into the eagerly-waiting lips of her partner, as spun off from
jenwolf's ambiguious reading of the last sketch I posted. But it didn't quite work. I know the pose I want, but I may have to create photo reference or something...
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