Gond 3

Rendered in meticulous ink patterning, this imagined grove becomes a stage where striped, chimera-like creatures and birds gather with the calm inevitability of a folk fable. The dense stippling of the mound and the rhythmic hatching in the trees create a tactile hush, while flashes of red—horns, beaks, and house-like facades—puncture the monochrome with a pulse of ceremony and latent danger. Scale is deliberately unsettled: animals loom like guardians, the small human figure stands as witness, and the clustered dwellings read less as shelter than as symbols of a community nested inside the wild. The work sustains a tender tension between innocence and the uncanny, suggesting a world where domestication and myth coexist in fragile balance.