Drawing - Haiku IV by James Edward Scherbarth

A striped shape above, a tangled one below, and a line of tiny red dots keeping them in touch.

Haiku IV is a drawing by James Edward Scherbarth, in hand colored graphite, pencil and wax on paper. A haiku compresses an image into very few syllables, and the title suggests a drawing built on the same economy. At the top, a long oval hatched in gray stripes is pinned by a small crossed knot of lines. A single thread drops from it, broken by red dots, to a cluster of overlapping forms below, with black, gray and red hatching around a dark central stroke. The rest is white paper. It is 7 inches wide and 10 high.

Seventeen syllables would have been too many.