Haiku Jilli Noss
Oil on canvas, 2023
In Haiku Jilli Noss, form and atmosphere dissolve into a suspended breath. Layers of translucent turquoise and deep-sea blue drift across the surface like slow tidal currents, interrupted by pale, almost glacial white gestures that obscure as much as they reveal. The warm copper ground beneath seems to pulse faintly through the cool strata, suggesting the presence of a hidden core.
The painting reads like a fragment of a larger organism—perhaps a membrane, perhaps a seed—that has paused in mid-metamorphosis. Its textures oscillate between fluid spill and crystallized growth, creating a tension between movement and stillness. Here, the act of painting becomes an excavation of thresholds: the instant before something emerges, the lingering afterimage of what has just transformed.
The invented title Haiku Jilli Noss operates as a sound vessel, a word-constellation with no direct translation. Like a haiku, it compresses an entire atmosphere into a few syllables, carrying a resonance rather than a fixed meaning. In this way, the work becomes both an image and an utterance—an invitation to listen for the spaces between language and matter.