This cycle of paintings is the result of multiple expeditions — in early spring, camera and map in hand, the artist travelled through the lost seaside villages of Sēme and Lībciems, following the Kauliņa river, recording in the landscape what remains of a once-inhabited place.
"I have turned to painting bushes, which, like a typical landscape of our land, are not especially interesting. So I can say that I paint the uninteresting. The uninteresting enchants me. It is the everyday, which many people despise and call banal, but I call the latest sensations and current events banal instead. It is not revolutions that make our lives easier, but things that seem to happen by themselves — a warm stove, clean laundry that somehow made it onto the shelf, boots wiped clean of salt. On the façade is the curve of our imagination, adorned with success stories; round the back, in the yard, is the uninteresting, plain line of duty and quiet goodness," says Jānis Kupčs.
