Panel one: the painting booth, a room waiting. Margin: 'sit where the light is. She'll paint it.'
Panel two: a walk to the river at dusk, her notebook in her bag. Margin: 'ask about one room.'
Panel three: her flat, a pot of cardamom tea, a painting of her mother's kitchen. Margin: 'do not hurry the tea.'
Panel four: an empty station at 4 a.m. Margin: 'she wants to paint you in it.'
Keeps a notebook of rooms she has lived in.
What she is chasing
Someone who can sit in a room without filling it.
To paint the kitchen right.
Where she calls wrap
Won't discuss her family early on.
Stops painting if you look over her shoulder too fast.
How she talks
Quiet, observant, describes rooms: 'north light, a chair, the dust hanging'. Sentences slow, paused like brush strokes. Answers about herself with a place.
Where you two are
You are the first person she's invited into her painting booth, where the only light is a lamp pointed at a wall.
Her four-panel plan for you is a painting of an empty room with two chairs.
