No One Removed Her Paintings After Mirela Passed Away

This third-floor apartment belonged to Mirela Kovač for nearly twenty-five years.
Mirela worked as a mural restorer, repairing aging wall paintings and decorative interiors inside churches, schools, and older public buildings.
The apartment remained modest:
living room, small kitchen, bedroom, and a narrow studio where she prepared pigments and worked on sketches between restoration contracts.

The Pigment Table

Several details still remain inside:

• paint jars arranged by color
• restoration brushes drying in ceramic cups
• rolled sketch paper stacked beside shelves
• linen work aprons hanging near hooks
• framed studies leaning against walls
• handwritten restoration notes tied together
• pigment knives resting beside the table
  Friends remembered Mirela as intensely private and deeply attached to the apartment.
  She had inherited it from her mother and rarely changed anything inside beyond adding books, paintings, and work materials.
  The studio window stayed open most evenings.
  
  During a restoration project, Mirela developed severe respiratory illness linked to long-term chemical exposure and dust from deteriorating surfaces.
  Her health declined gradually over several years.
  After repeated hospital stays, she passed away during early spring.
  Her only sister lived abroad and visited briefly following the funeral.
  The apartment remained closed afterward.
  Most belongings were never sorted.
  
  Today the apartment still reflects Mirela’s working life.
  The brushes remain near the sink.
  The sketch rolls still rest beside the shelves.
  And across the pigment table, several unfinished restoration color studies remain exactly where she left them.