Sarah Daniel

BD2023

Familiar Ground is a reflection on a place that feels both ordinary and extraordinary. It is the Indian Coffee House in my hometown, where time lingers, like the smell of filter coffee, long after the cups are empty. This isn’t about looking back or longing for what was. It’s about what’s here. The people. The moments. The rhythm of a place I thought I knew but didn’t. Red chairs scraped thin by time. Conversations that fold and unfold like newspapers. A cutlet that has stayed the same, stubborn against the world’s chaos. Staff who wait patiently, as if time moves differently here. These images don’t tell you what to see. They ask you to pause. To sit. To notice the quiet and the ordinary . Familiar Ground is how I began to see a place I had stopped looking at. Maybe, through it, you’ll see something too.