Come. Sit. Eat.

Tell Me Everything.

Acrylic on canvas 2026
20 × 20 in.

Some invitations are impossible to refuse.

Come. Sit. Eat. Tell Me Everything. imagines a moment beyond explanation—a place where time slows, burdens are set down, and every story is finally safe to tell.

Rather than depicting a specific place or event, the painting invites viewers to remember someone they've missed, someone who welcomed them, or someone with whom conversation always felt like coming home.

Like much of Charles Presti's work, the painting explores the extraordinary hidden within ordinary moments. A shared meal. A familiar chair. The comfort of being fully known.

The title is an invitation as much as a destination.

$1600
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Currently on exhibit at Artel Gallery, Pensacola, FL.

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  • Artel Gallery's Phrases of a Poem exhibit, this is the painting and poem pairing where I landed — “Tell Me Everything."

Read poem here. →

  • This painting was inspired by an essay I wrote imagining what might await us beyond this life.

If you'd like, I invite you to read it here.→