Varanasi 3 (Moonlight on the Ganges)

This nocturnal riverscape assembles a city as a mosaic of quiet certainties—temple-like roofs and stacked facades rendered in flattened, cutout geometry that feels both folk-architectural and dreamlike. A cool, emphatic moon anchors the composition, pouring a silvery stillness into the saturated blues, while boats drift like punctuation marks across the water, suggesting passage, trade, and the soft persistence of everyday rituals. The scattered circular discs read as luminous echoes—lanterns, offerings, or celestial fragments—turning the scene into a meditation on how faith and habitation co-exist, suspended between reflection and reverie.