Lockdown India (Lockdown)

The composition stages a claustrophobic theatre of control: a “LOCK DOWN” bar seals the upper register while cables, padlocks, and horn-like conduits choreograph the eye through a tangle of surveillance and restraint. Against a sickly ochre ground, the soft presence of birds and the faintly breathing earth are set in uneasy dialogue with mechanical appendages and a recording reticle, suggesting nature caught mid-testimony, observed rather than lived. The red arrows and looping hoses read like forced circulation—energy redirected, desire rerouted—so that the work becomes a parable of modern captivity where innocence is both protected and imprisoned by the very systems built to secure it.