"Summer night 2023" by Anchi

Summer night 2023

by Anchi

Gouache, Oil Pastel, Color Pencil

Scanned and Scanned at original size and reproduced using Giclée printing on KFam200F Fine Art Matte 200gsm Fibre.

Home is where the heart is, and mine has never left 3A Splendid Apartment in Ghent, Belgium, where I spent six months studying in 2023.

It wasn’t the place I grew up in, nor the one I owned, but it was the first space I could truly call my own, and that was the best feeling I’d ever had in my 23 years of life. My days there were ordinary in the sweetest way, sharing a home with my roommate, friends and boyfriends visiting, laughter echoing through the walls, cooking meals together, reading countless books, learning life lessons, working my first student job as a waitress, saving up for my first trip across Europe.

Those moments are sounds and scenes that will never leave me. I grew so much there. That apartment inspired me to start exploring and telling stories. I arrived with no expectations, but I came back knowing it would always be my home.

Do you know the feeling of yearning to be somewhere so much it aches? I do, every day. I long for the nights in that living room, in my pajamas, with a bag of puff Cheetos and a cup of coffee, laughing with my closest people while the summer breeze drifts through the big windows, framing my favorite view in the world.

• Limited edition of 20  — signed and numbered by an artist.
• A3 (29.7 x 42 cm)