This painting is part of the cycle Domácí potřeby / Needs of Home, which follows the meeting of the Asian minority experience with Central Eastern Europe in places where language, work and the idea of home subtly overlap.
It captures a moment of conversation on the doorstep of a small store, a place where the everyday becomes an interface between two experiences, languages and ideas of home.
The scene does not create a contrast between ‘here’ and ‘foreign’. Rather, it suggests that home emerges not only from origin or landscape, but from presence, work, waiting, and the silent inhabitation of space. The fleeting reflection of a bird opens up the motif of movement, fragility and distance, reminding us that one life can bear multiple places at once.
