Wonderful Everyday: The School Roof

A low view across the wet flat roof of a school under a huge summer sky. The sun is high and white in deep blue, with torn clouds near it, and a great heaped white cloud stands at the right. At the left is a concrete hut with a green door, a red box, a ladder, and a round water tank and an aerial on top. A wire fence goes down the right side and across the far edge, with a town below it. In the middle a schoolgirl stands with her back to us, one hand over her eyes, her long dark hair out on the wind. Her bag is on the floor, and the water at her feet shows her and the sky.

This is the roof of the school in Wonderful Everyday (Subarashiki Hibi), a visual novel by KeroQ. The story comes back to this roof again and again. A prophecy in the story says that the world will end on the twentieth of July, under this sky.

Yuki stands with her back to us. Rain has left water on the floor, and the water holds the sky. The story speaks of the sky again and again, and of how to live happily. The painting has 21,042 brush strokes.