Drinking the morning green tea – the monk is calm – the flowers of chrysanthemum.
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Haiku by Matsuo Basho

The artworks from this series focus on minimal, painterly and elusive compositions, merging Japanese aesthetic principles with the idea of minimal, abstract and spontaneous expressions.

When I started the collection, I initially named it Haiku – like the eponymous Japanese poems. Not everything is said: The paintings work with fragmental and open representations that are emotionally completed through the viewer's experience.

This is still a valid description for this body of work. As the collection evolved I felt the need to open up the concept from its culturally determined (and eventually misleading) title to a more general and inclusive name representing the poetic and abstract character of the series and changed the name to Lyricals.

Lyrical Paintings