Nur.

At Changi Beach, one Sunday, Nur found the first one. Grey, smooth, with a white vein running clean across it. He slipped it into his pocket in silence, and when his grandmother wanted to head home, he didn't move: he kept looking for more. She waited twenty minutes and never rushed him. That stone now sits at the centre of a collection that keeps growing, and it was the start of it all. The print doesn't tell that story; it just shows his face, front-facing, calm.

Nur is one of the Animal Kinhood characters, my series of animals in clothes living ordinary lives; in his case, a six-year-old boy who lives with his grandmother in Singapore. Framed, the portrait carries just the right presence: when someone walks into the room, that face is the first thing they look at. It works well in an entryway or a hallway, without competing with whatever's beside it. If you like how it orders the wall, you'll find the whole series — also framed — in the shop.