SOKOYAZE

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The forest is silent, but it contains all the cold of the world. No leaf moves, no light enters. Sokoyaze: when stillness freezes the roots, when the Earth breathes cold.

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Artistic description:

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A dark, closed valley, surrounded by silence and immobile pines. A dense sky, deep grays that are not clouds, but presence. In Sokoyaze, cold is not represented: it is sensed. The darkness rising from the ground, the lack of light, and the spectral tone of the sky create an atmospheric feeling of absolute containment. It is a work that does not shout or display drama, but penetrates deeply, like the persistent cold that is not seen but felt within. A painting that is place, climate, and mental state at once.

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Sokoyaze (底冷え) is a Japanese word that describes a cold that seems to rise from the ground, penetrating silently, like a gentle breeze.

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