The art gallery at POSK (the Polish Centre) often hosts exhibitions, and the current one, "Haika Prelude", featuring works by Carolina Khouri, is fascinating.
Marking the second anniversary of the Great East Tohoku Earthquake, the first impression, on entering the room and looking at the paintings from a distance, is that they are just swirls of colour - blues, pinks, reds, greens etc., set on a white background.
But look closer, and you realise that what at first looked like just swirls of colour are in fact exquisite pictures of birds in all different positions - small, medium and large. The pictures change from something a child could have produced into something which is highly complex and beautiful, quite unlike anything I have seen before.
I had never heard of Carolina Khouri before, but she is obviously an artist with a great talent for producing works that are unusual and also very beautiful.
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