Summer Grasses is named for a Bashō haiku as captured in his book, The Narrow Road to the Deep North:

summer grasses
the ruined dreams of 
men of war

On the 16th of May 1689, the haiku poet Matsuo Bashō set off on a 150-day walking journey from Edo (Tokyo) to the northern Provinces of Honshū, Japan. In 2021, I recreated part of Bahsō's walking journey for ten days. Summer Grasses is one of ten paintings in The Narrow Road to the Deep North Spring 2024 Series.

acrylic on raw canvas 
30” h x 24” w x 1.5” d
(76 cm x 61 cm x 3.5 cm)