Sea levels do not rise as events. They rise as accumulation: millimetres per year, entering coastal and built environments gradually enough that the change registers only after it has already normalised.
This painting depicts a domestic interior. A table stands in the room. A glass of water rests on the table. The furniture is in place. The proportions are correct. The room is flooded.
Nothing in the image announces emergency. The water does not rush. The painting is interested in this quality of slow environmental change: the condition that arrives not as rupture but as continuation, until continuation itself becomes the thing that was lost.
