Oil on canvas
50 × 40 cm
2026
A thin trickle bears witness to the water’s silent retreat. The stranded boats, ready to sail to no avail, reveal a world losing its bearings. Here too, something has withdrawn. With the water go familiar gestures, daily livelihoods, and the possibility of imagining a future. The landscape remains, but it no longer holds the same promises. People leave a land not only because another beckons, but also because the hope of continuing to live there is fading. Long before the crossing comes a quiet sorrow that slowly erodes the will to stay, as the place one belongs to becomes uninhabitable. And so departure begins, silently, at the edge of the absent water.