Wai (Sacred Waters)

A riverside sanctuary emerges through veils of indigo wash and soft mist, where architecture is less a solid monument than a memory held together by light. The warm ochres of domes and shrines pulse against the cool, rain-swept atmosphere, while slender flagpoles and scattered figures punctuate the broad steps, measuring human scale against devotional space. Reflections fracture across the water’s surface like passing thoughts, suggesting a city that is perpetually dissolving and re-forming—ritual and weather collaborating to renew the scene. In this balance of blur and clarity, the painting becomes a meditation on transience: the sacred not as permanence, but as presence repeatedly found.