{"id":70925,"date":"2025-11-01T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/?p=70925"},"modified":"2025-05-29T12:05:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:05:45","slug":"thf-haiga-galleries-felt-world-constructed-haiga-of-stella-pierides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/thf-haiga-galleries-felt-world-constructed-haiga-of-stella-pierides\/","title":{"rendered":"THF Haiga Galleries: Felt World \u2014 Constructed Haiga of Stella Pierides"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;70965&#8243; css=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Stella Pierides<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]The Haiku Foundation honors the work of contemporary masters of the dual art of haiga: visual image wedded to haiku. This month\u2019s featured artist is <strong>Stella Pierides<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Stella is a British poet and artist of Greek descent. Interweaving the past with the present, her work explores the cultural, social, and psychological layers of our lives.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFelt World<\/em> in the title of this Gallery alludes both to the world as experienced through our senses and emotions, in the immediate, embodied understanding of it; and the world of those interested in felting, in transforming mainly wool fibres to the matted material referred to as felt, through a process involving heat, moisture, and pressure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo instill a personal, subjective touch to my haiga, I photographed objects painstakingly handcrafted by myself: Felted objects, where felt is meant in the literal sense \u2014 textile made of wool, soap, water, and elbow grease; objects made of cement, sand, and water, such as the heads I sculpt and endow with features and expresssions; as well as photographs of places with special meaning to me. I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macqueensquinterly.com\/MacQ1\/Pierides-Hairballs-to-Haiga.aspx\">elsewhere<\/a>: \u2018As a result of bringing these sides together, through seeing, touching, handcrafting, imagining, and experiencing, I developed a strong, almost palpable connection to my creations.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>returning<\/p>\n<p>brushing against coarse grass<\/p>\n<p>and heather<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stella\u2019s work has been translated into several languages and anthologized. Her work for The Haiku Foundation included managing Per Diem (now Haiku of the Day), serving as founding managing editor for <em>Haikupedia<\/em>, conceiving and coordinating the year-long feature Haiku for Parkinson\u2019s, and serving on the Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<p>Stella has received two Haiku Society of America Merit Book awards for her books\u00a0<em>Of This World<\/em> (Red Moon Press, 2017 (48 haibun)) and <em>In the Garden of Absence<\/em> (Fruit Dove Press, 2012 (haiku)).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_media_grid element_width=&#8221;3&#8243; css=&#8221;&#8221; grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1748534687565-cdfc753f-b63c-4&#8243; include=&#8221;70947,70946,70945,70944,70943,70942,70941,70940,70939,70938,70937,70936,70935,70934,70933,70932,70931,70930,70929,70928,70927,70926&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felt World explores the world as experienced through transforming wool fibres through a 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