Please do come in!

The artist here catches those awkward moments when strangers are gathering for an event.

Once it starts they will meet, and talk, and get to know each other - and maybe something more. But so far they are strangers, keeping their distance, but awkwardly.

A pair is in evidence, the two girls in khaki, not strangers from each other, these two, waiting together.

But the girl in the black mackintosh is on her own, apprehension showing on her face, hands fiddling nervously with her collar.

The figure in white knows neither her nor the others but is there to announce that the moment is about pass: the doors are now open: please come in.

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