HAIKU + anatomy of a visual message

Two ancient pine trees...

A pair of gnarled and sturdy hands

with ten green fingers

---Ryoto

1. two/pair

2. century

3. bark

4. power

5. root

6. ancient

7. pine

8. trees

9. gnarled

10. sturdy

11. hands

12. ten

13. green

14. fingers

15. earth

16. rough

17. silence

18. colossal

19. wisdom

20. eternity

21. grasp

22. serene

23. weary

24. branch

25. growth

26. support

27. balance

28. wood

29. knot

30. time

31. permanent

32. human

IMAGES CAN BE...

---abstract

(a non-representational image that stands for a concept)

---symbolic

(a representational image that stands for a concept)

---representational

(a representational image that stands for what it looks like)