Agonising Christ 1 (Inner Conflict)

A monumental, shadowed face anchors the composition like a conscience half-submerged, while a saffron-robed Buddha and a delicate butterfly hover at the margins as quiet counterweights to the image’s latent violence. Revolvers and an oversized safety pin intrude with cold metallic certainty, turning the picture plane into a contested territory where protection and threat become indistinguishable. The ochres and bruised greys feel sun-baked yet unsettled, suggesting a mind scorched by history, where compassion persists as a fragile, luminous afterimage. In the red hibiscus, tenderness flares briefly—an insistence on life and ritual beauty against the machinery of harm.