Haiga is a Japanese concept for simple pictures combined with haiku. In Basho’s time, haiga meant a brushed ink drawing combined with one of his single poems handwritten as part of the picture.
Today, haiga can be watercolour paintings, photographs or collages with a modern, contemporary haiku integrated into the composition. I have decided to make use of the ever expanding world of AI to create my haiga.
The images have been AI generated by text using midjourney. The haiku are a mixture of my own and some created in collaboration with ChatGPT.
Mike Jackson 