How Do You Like Your Coffee?

For Pauline, this piece is about more than the ritual of making Lebanese coffee, it's about the ritual of connection that surrounds it. The drawing follows the physical process of making the coffee, but woven through it are the conversations that come with it: a host asking her guests how they take theirs, someone inviting another person over for a cup, a neighbor being called in to join. Coffee, she says, is rarely something you drink alone. In Lebanese culture, offering it is an act of love and hospitality, a whole ritual built around making someone feel wanted. Sometimes, she says, people don't know how to say what they feel out loud, but they know how to pour a cup and hand it to you. The question in the title carries a second meaning underneath the first: I will always like it with you.