Ekdant (Golden Wings)

This work conjures a mythic guardian suspended between tenderness and power, its black-and-white body constructed like a stitched cartography of memory, pattern, and ritual. The gilded wings flare outward as quiet sanctuaries of light, counterbalancing the dense, inked labyrinth of marks that suggests both armor and inner turbulence. Curving white forms—part embrace, part river—thread through the composition, softening the geometric spine and turning the figure into a vessel where chaos is patiently held. Surrounding lotus-like silhouettes and faintly ghosted traces give the scene the hush of a dream, as if the creature presides over a threshold where innocence, violence, and devotion negotiate their fragile truce.