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haiku and painting of three seedlings

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Come explore the online gallery for Makino Studios, showcasing poetry and art by Annette Makino. Her original poems combined with Japanese ink paintings convey a quiet Zen perspective and gentle humor.

Makino writes haiku and its wry, down-to-earth cousin, senryu, to capture fleeting moments and realizations. Following the Japanese tradition of haiga, artwork that accompanies haiku, she then paints images in sumi ink and watercolor that reflect and enrich her words.

Makino’s topics include the quirky ways of dogs, the delights and absurdities of love and family, the challenges of growing older, and insights of the heart.

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    My goal as a writer and artist is to create poems and images that remind us of deeper truths—that the quality of attention we pay every moment determines the quality of our lives, and that through our individual experiences, we touch on the universal.

    —Annette Makino