Frame by Frame

These watercolour images follow a small crew at work, opening and clearing a city drain with a steady, unspoken rhythm. Their movements are simple, direct and familiar, shaped by years of doing the same essential task, through the rain, the pandemic, and much more. Each person knows where to stand and how to meet the next gesture without fuss. The city's drain keeps a ledger of stories: the day a bus stalled, the corner where children once played, the shop that refused to close. These scenes are at once ordinary and profound; municipal duty becoming civic care, routine gestures elevated into a communal language.