Untitled 1 (Beneath the Lotus)

Suspended within a glowing amber orb, two fish meet in an intimate, almost confrontational duet, their wide eyes and parted mouths turning a simple aquatic encounter into a charged exchange of breath, desire, and survival. Around them, lotus and calla-like forms rise with ceremonial stillness, their cool whites and saturated violets counterbalancing the sunlit center and framing the scene like a living altar. The patterned waves flatten the space into a rhythmic mantra, suggesting that this is less a literal pond than a symbolic inner realm where instinct circulates and consciousness blooms. In the tension between radiant enclosure and surrounding calm, the work speaks to how intimacy can feel both nourishing and consuming—an eclipse of the self inside a shared, luminous world.