Talk:Marks and Recreation/@comment-53539-20171003154734/@comment-14570754-20171003170934

Actually, We Are Borg from Equestria Daily wrote this:

I didn't catch it until she got her cutie mark in Haiku but her circle drawings are very much related to her cutie mark. While Haiku is a well-known form of Japanese poetry, only those who spent more than a high school writing class learning about it would recall Haiga, a combination of Haiku and a simple painting related to the poem's subject. Starting as a natural evolution to doodle on the same page with the same brush used to stroke the poem, some Haiga combined another form of painting and Japanese expression, the Ensō...

(source) Created from one or two brush strokes, using the same tools and discipline used in Japanese calligraphy, the Ensō symbolizes elegance, strength, enlightenment, the universe, and "the void". The painting of the ensō when closed represents perfection while unclosed, in Kettle Corn's case represents imperfection. The practice of drawing the ensō for self-realization is called hitsuzendō ("way of the brush") established as a Zen practice to find one's true self through calligraphy.