"Abigail Hamilton has photographed a number of weather-beaten or just beaten businesses in the outskirts of Seattle - evoking a post-apocalypse of the American dream. Not satisfied, she has colonized this bleak landscape with characters that speak in the terse idiom of haiku, which record the recommendations, observations, admonitions, instructions, recollections, and oracular prognostications of the lost yet knowledgeable souls whom she imagines holding forth wisely, humorously, and tragically amidst the ruins. As others have done, Hamilton milks colloquialism and trash-culture for laughs, but the sharp, deceptively casual satire cannot conceal a humane meditation on the gap between illusion and reality, incidentally set in the rust belt of the Pacific Northwest." - Oliver Sacramento, October 4, 2004 These are the first of a growing body of haiku which use a visual photograph as the title, or are they photographs which are unpeopled until the haiku completes them? If you are interested in other images, obtaining 11 x 14 framed prints, or for information about upcoming exhibitions, please contact me. Framed prints with the haiku rubber stamped and the signature embossed are $250 plus shipping. Thanks for your interest.
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