The art piece story:

In this Ways of Life painting, a familiar public setting becomes an in-between space. A solitary figure sits as if in a café — coffee on the table, a bag set beside them — while water quietly rises across the floor, turning an ordinary moment into a suspended, dreamlike wait. It isn’t catastrophe; it’s a shift in atmosphere, when what you feel starts to change what you see.

A sansevieria stands in its pot within the water: upright, resilient, almost indifferent to the change around it. Above, a Bird of Salvage perches on the lamp like a discreet witness. In the blue, a white dog emerges — alert, present — accompanied by a single floating white ball that reads like a question left unanswered. Near the window, fine cracks appear in the wall: subtle signs that the outside world presses in, and that the surface of things can’t stay perfectly sealed.

Small details carry a second geography. African-inspired elements — drawn from objects and textures found in the artist’s own home — appear through patterns, colours, and design choices, including the blue lamp dotted with dark points, reminiscent of beadwork traditions in African art. Calm but charged, the scene holds the feeling of waiting for something to arrive — when the everyday stays in place, but the current underneath begins to change.

This piece is sold.