This week’s zen Monday is the third post after #119 and #116 to include a new series of brush pen work. Parallel to my sketchbooks and paintings, I have started two postcard series in 2020 from two favorite places – Zurich and Kanazawa.

From today, whenever a new brush pen postcard from this series is shown on zen Monday it will be paired with a haiku (read on for today’s). This takes further the principle I experimented with in my first art book, “One Moment, One Drawing” – where each postcard was given a poetic seasonal title in four languages. The English translation of the haiku will make up the post headline, below the inspiring images you can find the Japanese original in three scripts (full script, hiragana only and romaji), followed by the Portuguese and German translations.

This week’s haiku:

屋上で

紫が咲く

雀見て

おくじょうで

むらさきがさく

すずめみて

ひらがな

Okujou de

murasaki ga saku

suzume mite

Romaji

Sobre telhados

de violeta em flor

observam pardais

Português

Über den Dächern

buntes Violett blüht wo

Sperlinge gucken

Deutsch

I would love to know whether you enjoy this new postcard series and its additional content. Leave your thoughts below. See you again next Monday. Until then, thank you for reading another zen Monday. ありがとうございました。

You can find more background on the development of zen Mondays and other work in progress through my instagram account here

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