Welcome - To Port Haven Gallery ((install))

Welcome. You’ve found the threshold.

The last painting—canvas #7—is covered in a salt-stained velvet cloth. A note pinned to it reads: "Do not lift unless you are prepared to take the artist's place." welcome to port haven gallery

Port Haven Gallery doesn't exist on any public map. There's no website, no social media presence. If you're reading this, you either received a black-bordered envelope with a pressed gull feather inside… or you walked past a certain rain-streaked doorway on Wharf Street, smelled salt and turpentine, and turned the handle when you shouldn't have. Welcome

Behind the gallery's single counter sits a woman who calls herself Kestrel. She never blinks. She offers you tea that tastes like low tide and memory. She asks: smelled salt and turpentine