My final project, ‘Haiku: A Visualisation’ aims to utilise the visual potential present within haiku poetry to translate three selected haiku poems into tranquil, yet visually engaging stop-motion animation videos. These hopefully offer the viewer a brief antidote to the rushed nature of the modern world, as well as bringing the serene and modest joy of haiku poetry to a perhaps unaware audience.

As each of the selected haiku poems were written by different poets and possess different qualities, the animations were created in three distinct styles, using a range of different materials, and were finally displayed in three unique public spaces, as a means to reference the three line format present within haiku poetry. At the end of each of the animations, a period where the sound continues passed the point of the visuals ending is included, in order to allow time for reflection.

Three posters, corresponding with the three animations, were also produced, as a means to increase the range of public spaces in which the visualised haiku poems could be viewed. A translucent medium-weight paper was selected, so that the posters would feel delicate and understated, similarly to the selected haiku poems themselves.