Varanasi 1

This painting stages an imagined city as a fevered mosaic of faceted rooftops and chapel-like apertures, where architecture dissolves into memory and becomes a carrier of emotion rather than place. A molten field of reds and ember-orange light presses forward, turning windows into small votive flames that suggest private lives glowing inside a collective unrest. The composition’s fractured planes and abrupt angles generate a restless rhythm—part procession, part collapse—so the settlement reads as both sanctuary and labyrinth. In its scorched palette and scraped textures, the work speaks to resilience: a community held together by luminous thresholds even as its foundations seem to shift.