The coffee shop has become the meeting place and workplace of modern urban Australia. The coffee shop near the railway station is a place to stop and work as well as collect a coffee on the way to work, school or uni. In a repurposed old garage using old fence palings for planter boxes growing herbs and succulents The Herbert is the story of many cafes in Melbourne.

Photos, hand dyed silk, machine embroidery watercolour paint, map fragment.