Raising Awareness of Global Concerns through a Marriage of the Arts

To illuminate this time and space we all float in.

About the The Abstractaphy Initiative and the grahnArt Project: The grahnArt Project is comprised of a set of initiatives—Drifting Sands Haibun and The Abstractaphy Initiative—based on the arts and designed to foster deeper understanding of, and commitment to, positive change in people’s lives and in their relationships with their fellow humans and all other aspects of life on this planet. Richard Grahn is the founder and developer of the project. The project’s two initiatives are defined below:

The Abstractaphy Initiative – This website (and related projects).

  • Mission: To energize the imagination of viewers, readers, and artists through the experience of art and the written word; to raise awareness of global issues; to inspire others to actively contribute to the well-being of the planet for the benefit of present and future generations; and to highlight the common ground we, the human race, all stand on.
  • The Abstractaphy Initiative is:
    • An online journal of writing and imagery dedicated to raising awareness of global issues and inspiring individuals to participate in the well-being of life on this planet.
    • A growing, body of content derived from submissions made to the journal by its contributors and slated for future publication as a physical collection of art to be exhibited in public spaces, in print. and as presentations for use in education, for example.
  • The Abstracaphy Initiative’s Message to Humanity is simple: We must now set aside our grievances and look at our fellow human beings as partners in a grand collaboration to, in the words of Anne Frank, “improve the world.”
  • Current assets include:

To contribute content to The Abstractaphy Initiative, please see our Submissions Guidelines.

Drifting Sands Haibun – An online journal of haibun and tanka prose.

  • Mission: to enhance the lives of writers, artists, viewers, listeners, and readers through the experience of haibun and tanka prose poetry and related art; to inspire others to actively contribute to the well-being of the planet and its present and future inhabitants; and to highlight the common ground we, the human race, all stand on.
  • Drifting Sands Haibun is an online journal featuring poems on a diverse range of topics; a community of poets, readers, volunteers, and contributors; and a platform for freedom of speech. The goal of Drifting Sands Haibun is to engage the reader’s imagination with contemporary haibun and tanka prose poetry. Current assets include:
  • Most issues of the journal are open, topic-wise, with some themed issues on subjects such as “Children” and “Human Rights.”

To contribute content to the journal, please see our Submissions Page.