A soft golden yellow blossom smiles at you. Burnt orange circles the endeavour to warm up the scene. There are dots of ivory - the cream that mixes the colours to become unique. The site is covered with a dusty lavender layer, so that the flower extravagantly opens up to its viewer. The background is left to

Before anyone arrives, the table waits. A linen cloth falls softly over its edges, gathering into folds that almost reach the floor. Glasses catch the last light from the windows. Between them, flowers lean into the spaces left for conversation: a rose turned towards an empty chair, a slender stem suspended above the linen, a few petals opening