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In between

Breaths


A book of Haiku
by Padma Rajeshwari

In Between Breaths is a collection of haiku and senryu – the Japanese form of micro-poetry.

In just a few words, these poems capture fleeting moments from everyday life and quiet glimpses of nature.

Each poem is an invitation to pause, linger and experience a delicate spectrum of emotions that shape our everyday life – joy, nostalgia, melancholy, hope, humor, solitude and frustration.

I was commissioned to work on the illustrations, layout, and feel of the book.

The illustrations range from the literal- objects caught in motion, static elements, to the ived- scenarios and moments caught in time, to the abstract- expressions of pain & grief in order to capture the emotion of haiku without overpowering the writing.

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