This feels very familiar - Picture Plate

A man plays his part with confidence — music, charm, and practiced attention — while the woman listens politely, gift in hand, posture composed. On the surface, it’s romantic. Beneath it, something feels rehearsed.

This feels very familiar captures the moment where wooing becomes routine. The words, the gestures, the tactics — all recognisable. She’s heard this before. Maybe not from him, but from men like him, delivered in much the same way.

Dry, observational, and quietly unimpressed, this plate sits at the centre of Chapter II — Performance, where romance reveals itself as repetition rather than revelation.