Henning Lundkvist is a Swedish visual artist and writer who lives in the capital of Denmark. Taking Kharabat, ‘the last teahouse of its kind’, as his cue, the author draws an unexpected parallel between two very distant and very different cities: Copenhagen and Kabul. We are suddenly immersed in a world of sounds (including music), tastes, images and technologies in which a synaesthetic interweaving of times and spaces inspires us to travel, imagine and wander. This View of Delft thus becomes a moving painting in which the forms, figures and colours are haunted by the subterranean threat of the sea.