The emptiness in a Japanese garden is like silent breathing; a space between the words of a poem where thoughts take flight. It is the breath of the soul of the garden; a silence charged with meaning; a pause.

Piccinelli composes with emptiness; it is a way for him to sublimate a color; a trace; a space.The void is not an absence; but a discreet presence.

The Japanese garden is a negative painting; where the empty spaces draw as many contours as the visible elements. The raked gravels; smooth as the water of a still lake; create patterns that seem to be mysterious calligraphies; inscribing deep meanings in the souls of those who contemplate them.The emptiness in the Japanese garden is a reminder that the space between things is just as important as the things themselves; that absence can be just as expressive as presence.

Listen to the silence; see the invisible...