Kolkata 15 (River Crossing)

Set against the monumental geometry of a suspension bridge, the solitary vessel becomes a quiet protagonist, moored in a cold, metallic expanse where water and sky almost dissolve into one another. A veiled, silvery light presses through the cloud cover, flattening the horizon and turning the distant shoreline into a memory—more suggestion than place—while the dark hull anchors the composition with human weight and endurance. The buoy-like forms punctuating the foreground read as both markers and sentinels, implying boundaries in a world of shifting visibility, where industry and atmosphere negotiate a fragile truce. In this suspended moment, the work meditates on passage and waiting: progress towering above, yet the lived experience lingering in mist, sound, and slow drift.