Photography can be a Zen art much like Ikebana, haiku or sumi-e.  It is about being present to the material in front of you. Receiving it and working with its quintessential characteristics. All are minimalist attempts to render the ineffable, the transitory, the imperfect. On Thursday, October 20, 2021 at 1:30 I invite you to join me in the Mirella Cimato Gallery in the St. Petersburg Opera to explore my visual and verbal haiku.