Co-Existence: A Portrait of Shared Belonging

There is a particular quality of silence that emerges when three people occupy the same space without the need to explain themselves. Not awkwardness. Not avoidance. Something closer to ease, the kind of unspoken understanding that comes from recognizing shared ground beneath different feet. Co-Existence began with that silence. KINN Studios set out to paint not a statement about diversity, but a portrait of what it actually feels like when it works.

The mural depicts three women of distinct cultural backgrounds, each rendered with her own bearing, her own gaze, her own quiet authority. One wears a pink head wrap, another braids, another silver-streaked hair that falls past her shoulders. They do not look at each other, and they do not look away from each other. They simply coexist, each fully herself within a composition that holds them all. Between them, white poppies and calla lilies rise from below, botanical forms that soften the bold graphic linework and connect the figures through a shared organic language.

The Composition

KINN Studios chose to work in a restrained palette of warm earth tones punctuated by a single, decisive stroke of cobalt blue. The effect is striking. Against the muted creams, warm browns, and sage greens, the blue draws the eye to the central figure, who anchors the triptych not through hierarchy but through position. The composition reads less like a posed portrait and more like a candid moment, three women who happened to find themselves in the same frame and felt no need to rearrange.

The graphic style is deliberate. Bold outlines, flat colour fields, and minimal shading give the work a contemporary illustrative quality that references both fashion editorial and street art traditions. This visual language was chosen for its accessibility. The mural needed to communicate across cultural and generational lines without relying on symbolism that would exclude anyone. White poppies, understood across traditions as symbols of peace and remembrance, provide the single shared motif. Calla lilies add vertical rhythm and a sense of natural elegance that complements the human figures without competing with them.

Process and Community

The process photographs at the bottom of the collage reveal the labour behind the finished work: the careful brushwork on each figure's features, the paints arranged on a tray like a palette of skin tones, the artist's hand steadily outlining a petal. These details matter. They remind the viewer that this mural was not printed or projected. Every line was drawn by hand, every colour mixed by eye. There is a human presence embedded in the paint itself, and it is this presence, as much as the subject matter, that gives Co-Existence its warmth.

In a city that continues to grow more diverse, Co-Existence offers something rarer than a celebration. It offers a reflection. Not of who we aspire to be, but of who we already are when we stop performing unity and simply practise it. The mural does not ask its viewers to do anything. It simply shows three women, standing together, and lets that be enough.