Gnosis 18 (Monks' Procession and the Lotus)

A monumental lotus unfurls like a stage for tenderness, its pink petals radiating outward to cradle a pair of figures whose warm, earthen reds read as both intimate and archetypal. The composition hinges on a bold contrast—saturated violet water and clean green pads framing the central bloom—so that the couple appears suspended between the grounded world and a dreamlike, ceremonial space. By flattening form into confident planes of color and leaving detail to suggestion, the work turns embrace into symbol: love as a quiet pilgrimage, protected by nature’s geometry and illuminated from within.