Life Wheel 31 (Life Wheel 17)

The composition turns an ordinary wheel into a portal, where concentric rings of rubber and rim become a modern mandala framing a compressed city narrative at its core. Saturated reds and creamy whites, sharpened by graphic black contours, lend the vehicle a pop-icon authority while the tiny street scene—alive with taxis and receding architecture—suggests motion, ambition, and the hum of metropolitan time. By collapsing vast urban space into a single circular aperture, the work meditates on how travel and desire are internalized: the city isn’t outside the car so much as carried within it. The polished surface reads like nostalgia made mechanical—memory lacquered into design.