Virat (The Fish Avatar)

Set within a blazing orange mandala-like disc, the emerald-faced figure holds a still, watchful gaze that turns the portrait into an icon of inner discipline—calm not as softness, but as controlled force. The composition balances symbolic opposites: the cool, scaled blue fish bearing the sitter like a vessel of passage, and the vertical chain of lotus buds rising beside them as a quiet measure of spiritual ascent. Collaged text and weathered passages of paint dissolve the boundary between sacred image and lived time, suggesting memory, prayer, and daily noise pressed into a single field. Jewel-like reds and greens, punctuated by the gold orb at the chest, read as an altar of appetite and restraint, where desire is transmuted into presence.