Promises & people

A baker answers to the mayor’s borrowed name. With the return ledger erased, three groups must agree which loans to end before dawn.

An unplanned room opens between two paintings. Objects inside cast the shapes of missing labels, and the museum must decide what it can honestly say about them.

The shared drums are silent. A council host, small performers and crowd stewards need an opening they can all accept.

Promises have become little objects in an overflowing archive. Owners, clerks and delivery volunteers disagree about what may leave the shelves.

Miri’s apparently empty satchel pulls heavily at its strap. A smudged street number keeps sending her to a door whose resident says the bell is not theirs.

Place cards have been moved at a five-seat civic supper. Four guests have practical seating needs, and a fifth setting seems to belong to someone nobody invited.

The first shared supper of a rebuilt neighbourhood has four benches, one water cart and four groups who each need something the same square cannot provide at once.