Sema from The four seasons(after Cy Twombly)- Liza Lim by Vanesa Santanach published on 2015-12-20T12:59:04Z 'I spent time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in January 2007 and was very inspired by the works by Cy Twombly on display, in particular, the massive four-panelled work ‘Quattro Stagioni’. The combination of ecstatic saturated colour, linear calligraphic dynamism and and paint washes veiling poetic commentaries scrawled on canvas, gave me many ideas for a piano cycle in four parts. These ‘seasons’ are seasons of an inner life – they are made up of ‘climates of feeling’ – weather patterns that are sometimes extravagantly baroque in expression or shot through with an elegaic sense of the passage of time opening out to a ceremonial dance: a ‘Sema’ or the Sufi’s meditative whirling dance of union.' Liza Lim, 2009 Genre Contemporary Classical