Swayvedan 106 (The Pandemic's Shadow)

This work folds the familiar into the mythic: a camel’s monumental silhouette becomes a sheltering architecture where fragments of reportage, memory, and animal presence are collaged into a single, breathing habitat. A restrained palette of sand, ochre, and umber evokes arid continuity, while the sharp, white geometric tracery cuts across the surface like a map of imposed boundaries—measuring, partitioning, and yet unable to contain the living warmth beneath. At the center, the clipped headline of “COVID-19” and the suggestion of curfew read like an intrusion of public crisis into private, pastoral time, turning the beast into both witness and refuge. The composition oscillates between tenderness and constraint, proposing resilience as something pieced together—layer by layer—against the brittle logic of control.