Kashi Nagari (The Eternal Flow)

This circular relief reads like a city turned inward: earthen, carved blocks stack into a labyrinthine perimeter, guarding a muted central pool where small, boat-like marks drift as quiet witnesses. A stark vertical rod and taut, looping wires interrupt the warmth with an industrial cadence, suggesting the invisible infrastructures—power, memory, constraint—that bind a community together. The deep, ember-dark outer ring frames the composition like a charred horizon, intensifying the sense of enclosure while the hollow center offers a fragile breathing space, poised between refuge and siege.