This painting is part of the cycle Domácí potřeby / Needs of Home, in which the everyday environment of small stores becomes a space where Asian cultural memory settles in Central Europe, transforming into a new layer of local tradition.
It asks the question what remains of tradition when a person is far from his origin, language and culture, when he must also create a new space every day.
It reflects the hard work, adaptability and internal cohesion of people who bring their own cultural memory to another environment. Family, faith and relationships are not depicted as nostalgia, but rather as living connections, often maintained through screens and phones. Practical items, Czech symbols and remote cultural traces slowly settle in to form new traditions.
This combination turns into an ornament on the canvas. It's not just visual chaos, it's a new decorative order that unexpectedly also associates the original Czech ornamental tradition. Tradition doesn't survive here as an untouched legacy of the past, but as a living form that is transferred, adapted, layered and re-created.
