The COVID-19 pandemic has produced a number of changes in our world over the past three years. There have also been many lives lost. Even so, many of us were unable to attend funerals or say a proper goodbye. At present, the summer heat has finally passed, and the insects of autumn are sounding their voices as if nothing had ever changed. It is thoughts like these that filled my mind as I created these paintings of wintry scenes. (Hideki Morimoto)