Summer Trip With A is a celebration of the mundanity of the every day, deliberations on love, familial comfort and the pursuit of happiness. Part of the series ‘Things Felt But Not Quite Expressed’, the work was born from the artist’s growing apathy towards photography, which he felt did not quite capture gentle movement and tenderness. He wished to embrace a slowness such as observed in this work—a slow looking, reading and feeling generated by the nuanced lyricism of colour. 

The artist contextualizes the series, explaining that creating such works allowed him to process his grief with illness at home during a difficult time. The work is a commentary on the social control of grief as it challenges the cultural constructs which limit how mourning and reflections on memories should look. Instead of painting a dark and lost painting, Sohrab introduces a playful tone. This draws the viewer in as it is a display of genuine vulnerability. Acknowledging the blurriness of memories and how sometimes emotions cannot be fully articulated through language, he recalls the softness of every day. The soft pastels are driven with feelings and as the landscape passes by in the painting, one is made aware of the momentary calmness and inevitability of its happy return.