A Life Cycle.

Series: The Life Cycle (2026).

acrylic on canvas. quadriptych.

30 × 30 cm.

Series: The Life Cycle

This ongoing series, “Life Cycle”, is inspired by the psychological labyrinths in Haruki Murakami's novel Norwegian Wood (one of my favourite books). It investigates the disorienting yet beautiful phenomenon of inner metamorphosis—the experience of passing from one state of consciousness into another, only to find that every exit leads not to an end, but to a new beginning in a strangely familiar world.

It is a visual meditation on the non-linear journey of the self, where moments of chaos, order, collapse, and renewal are not endpoints, but continuous phases in a perpetual cycle. The works serve as maps for these intangible passages, inviting the viewer to contemplate their own psychological landscapes.

The specific resolutions of these themes—the interplay of light and structure, chaos and order—are discovered within the visual language of the paintings themselves. This series is an open inquiry, and these first works are an invitation to look inward and begin the exploration.