A collective watercolour born from a painting workshop where twelve palettes passed hand to hand around a table too small for the Podil basement. Iryna proposed a simple instruction: « one joyful colour per turn, without correcting the neighbour ». The result resembles an imaginary garden seen from above — vermilion, cobalt, mimosa yellow, sage green patches overlapping without fighting.

Daylight entered through an oblique skylight; in the deliberately left white zones one can still see fine-grain paper texture and the shadow of the protective mesh on the window after summer repairs. Controlled splashes recall muffled laughter when a cup tipped — a rare moment of lightness, almost guilty, then liberating.

Second reading: the composition forms a stylised map of the quarter — blue at the centre like the Dnieper, oranges at the edge like Podil copper roofs at sunset. The work celebrates fragile joy returning after an alert, when one dares again to mix pigments instead of counting seconds on the stairs. Joy of colours: not naivety, but a collective decision to keep seeing the world in saturation.