Based on a photograph from a family album, Christiane Pooley depicts a country scene, representing two young sisters posing in front of a small canal.
As in most of Christiane Pooley's works, the apparent quietude of this painting reveals the reflections on belonging to a territory, which is at the heart of the artist's work.
The blinding light, which both illuminates the landscape and blurs the expressions of the two children, evokes emotional states disturbed by the absence of an identified portrait, and insinuates doubt in the viewer.