now the swinging bridge
is quieted with creepers 
like our tendrilled life
           ~ Basho

Typically, a Japanese garden designer will bring in tonnes of rock. As one designer put it: 'It starts out as a pile of stones, but when you place them nicely they inttegrate artistically into the garden landscape.'

Haiga is a traditional Japanese form mixing brushwork or sumi-e image and haiku. Contemporary English-language haiga practitioners use brushwork, paintings, photographs, digital art with haiku or tanks. Typically one sees two different images, one in the aartwork or photograph, and one in the haiku prose imagery. The viewer is left to form an association between image and haiku. Do you think this clutter of stones is somewhat akin to Basho's phrase "our tendrilled life?" Might he as well have written "now the swinging bridge / is quietec with creepers / like our cluttered life?"

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