The window series — 24x24 in — Vigo cafe

The chair is empty, but the room is not without company. A figure appears beyond the railing; a vase, a window, and fragments of handwriting offer signs of ordinary life. Green, violet, and grey keep the spaces close without quite joining them.

This painting holds the experience of caring from a distance: missing the people we love while continuing to inhabit another room, another city, another day. The empty chair is not only a symbol of loss. It is also a place kept in mind for someone who is not here.

Moroccan references remain in the painting’s vocabulary, but the feeling travels beyond any one place. The window allows us to look toward another life without closing the distance. Some kinds of care are like that: present, persistent, and unable to reach across the room.

About the artist
Satish Prabhu brings travel, reading, and everyday encounters into a practice of reconstruction. Figures, interiors, and familiar objects become ways to explore memory, belonging, and the distance between people. This is an original, artist-created work, not an AI-generated image.

Dimensions: 24x24 in
Location: Vigo cafe

Related paintings
The Memories and Time: caregiving made visible through the Three Graces
The Empty Chair: another room shaped by absence

From the journal
Read the personal story: The Art of Caring for Loved Ones from Afar