These three prints show how Maki explored different relationships among colors, shapes, and textures. The weathered, dark blue areas, like painted cement walls that have survived a few seasons, and the irregular woodgrain shapes both reference nature. By juxtaposing these with abstract, debossed teardrops, ovals, and circles, Maki emphasized the incongruity of the natural and constructed.
![Title unknown [Abstract flower], Maki Haku, 1950s–1960s](https://img.artsmia.org/web_objects_cache/132000/300/40/132346/mia_8025612_800.jpg)
![Title unknown [abstract image with geometric shapes], Maki Haku, 1950s–1960s](https://img.artsmia.org/web_objects_cache/132000/300/60/132360/mia_8025604_800.jpg)
