After a walk through parkland along the old millstream, participants wrote words that reflected their memories of the sights sounds and smells they had experienced. These they then rearranged to create haikus.

Stoneware stained with oxides was used to create the Haiku sculpture.

 

Participants modelled small 'sprig' decorations to illustrate the haikus that they had written.

The 'sprigs' were bisque fired and then used to form impressed and raised decorations on the spines of the sculpture.

The words of the haikus written by the participants were stamped into the clay spines, punctuated by sprig decorations.

The finished work was mounted on one of the walls of the library courtyard.