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A crowd scene, but not a chaotic one — Czimber organizes dozens of figures into small clusters of conversation, the way people actually arrange themselves at a market or a town meeting. No single person dominates; the painting is about the shape a community takes when it comes together on its own terms. He returned to this subject more than once across his career, which says something about what he thought painting was for.