What begins as a walk through empty roads, mist-covered landscapes and forgotten ruins slowly becomes something far more intimate: a journey into the human mind.
GOTHIC is a collection of 51 haikus exploring darkness, decay, memory, regret, mortality and, ultimately, acceptance. Across abandoned cathedrals, broken gravestones, forgotten letters, silent ravens and moonlit rivers, the world outside gradually reveals itself as a reflection of the world within.
The journey unfolds through six movements: Echoes, Ruins, Remnants, Ravens, The Carcass of My Mind, and Moonlit Silence. What first appears to be a journey through a Gothic landscape eventually becomes a confrontation with the self, where the darkness is no longer something to escape, but something to understand.
And yet, there is another ending.
The final three haikus form The Price of Refusal, an alternate coda exploring what happens when truth is rejected and acceptance never comes.
Dark, atmospheric and philosophical, GOTHIC uses the simplicity of the haiku form to explore some of life's most unsettling truths:
Everything decays.
Everything is remembered.
Everything eventually becomes silent.
And perhaps, in that silence, there is peace.