Monday, November 24, 2014

The mountains become dark
I listen to its voice


Sometimes I stop begging
and gaze at the mountains


Santoka Teneda



Sandia mountain, Albuquerque, suset

Friday, November 21, 2014







On my penitent mind
the sun shining
and a small bird coming to chirp

Santoka Teneda
























Saturday, November 1, 2014

On 10.11.14 I presented THE RAKUSU PROJECT, Feel of the Needle in the ACOG
(A. C. Occasional Gallery), my studio gallery/zendo space.

Twenty-one rakusus, I had hand sewn using a wild and wide variety of papers, each illustrating a haiku by the Japanese mendicant monk, Santoka Teneda, were installed. The installation was a part of a performance in which Lynn Miller (performer, writer) modeled the rakusu and read the attendant haiku to the gathered crowd before being installed in the gallery. 
A video of the performance will be posted when available.



link to my website and more information about the project and the ACOG: 
annecooperstudio.com

feel of the needle
when at last
you get the thread through it

detail of
 "a soft whirling drunk/ a scattering of leaves"
tissue paper, cottonwood leaf, graphite