Credits
Original Gujarati Haiku by Sneh Rashmi
English Translation guide : Malvika Tiwari

Visual Haiku

Visual Haiku Project is based on a collection of 19 haiku's written in the 1970s by Zinabhai Desai. It is my attempt to represent Gujarati literature and script through experimental typography in modern contemporary design form. It is effort to preserve to include, to exchange and to celebrate.

The haiku were translated into English without keeping the format of haiku in to order to bring out messages in clearest possible way.

The entire night spent in dreams like shooting stars, now slipping away with day break

The doors to the unknown have opened, let’s crown death and welcome him

His haikus remain as relevant to the current era as they were three decades ago, they are a delightful reflection on human behavior – some portraying death as an honorable event, others a reminder of finding content in what one has; still others are instances of daily life served with a dose of sarcasm.

As the boat hides along the river bends, it contemplates it's journey along the strongly carved current

The key I hold no longer turns the lock on my door. Where do I turn next, leaving my threshold behind?

A Storm brews in the sea, under the calm glare of the sky

His haikus remain as relevant to the current era as they were three decades ago, they are a delightful reflection on human behavior – some portraying death as an honorable event, others a reminder of finding content in what one has; still others are instances of daily life served with a dose of sarcasm.

Deep mountain caves inviting everything into their darkness, surrounding skies remain locked outside

Behold this woeful sight! The nagging river disturbs the flow of the sewer

As the game unfolds, we shall all witness them surface - The Ace, The King and The Queen

As a bird perishes on the electric cable, the bees hover low on the flowers

The entire night spent in dreams like shooting stars, now slipping away with day break

As I spot mother, masked with innocent schoolbooks, love letters hidden away

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