A 19 Planets Art Blog 2010/2013

Slightly Altered Photograph

• 8 x 12 Inches @ 300 ppi
• Nikon D80 Digital Camera
• Adobe Photoshop Elements 6

*The term “slipper” on the islands of Hawaii refer to what are often called flip-flops elsewhere. Slippers are probably the most common footwear to be found on the islands.  I often see a lost slipper on my walks—sometimes a pair.  I often photograph these where I find them because it seems to me there must be a story in how each slipper got to were I see it. This particular slipper was on the little strip of grass between curb and sidewalk. I suspect a child was carried from a car to the house and this slipper dropped from one foot in the walk. 

Ku On This: A Child’s Slipper

Focus: See if you can connect this image up to a larger perspective. 

Ku On This prompts are usually posted once a week between Tuesday and Friday. Sometimes they include a “Focus”, sometimes they do not. 

You are welcome and invited to play Ku On This. 

1. Post your response to the Ku On This prompt on your own blog. 
2. Click your post title then copy that URL (not the URL to your blog).
3. Add the URL to your post to the Mr Linky form below by clicking on the Mr Linky button. This will allow people to find your response from the Ku On This prompt post—you can find the work of others from there as well, so please take a look.
4. A new Mr Linky list is created for each Ku On This prompt.
5. Add a comment to the Ku On This post when you add your URL to Mr Linky and I will visit your response within the following week. 

Ku On This prompts are intended to explore haiku and of course have fun. In that sense your response to the Ku On This prompt does not have to be in the form of haiga, which I often explore as well. In fact you do not have to write haiku to respond at all.  

How you respond and how your response connects up to the Ku On This prompt is up to you: short form poetry, flash writing, 55 word short story, remembrance writing, shot-gun writing, a photo response, drawing, doodle, digital drawing and painting, watercolor are all fine (a few of the ways you can respond—and have fun).

Information and background for Ku On This can be found by clicking the page link in the navigation bar (above).

Be fun. Write haiku. Aloha