From the point of view of my personal artistic research, flowers are perfect models, the shapes can be of a refined and complex elegance or a disconcerting simplicity, their colors enclose an infinite range of tones and shades and the environments in which I love to represent them. they allow to tell of fantastic worlds made of sunny lights and mysterious shadows, of soft leaves or of delicate transparencies on very clear skies. The subject of this painting are flowers seen during a trip to Japan, on the occasion of an ascent to a temple.