Banaras 19 (Cityscape in Flux)

This work stages a city not as a map of streets, but as a memory in motion—architectural silhouettes and spires rising from a weathered ground of scraped whites and umbers. A vivid, river-like surge of cobalt cuts through the dense, dark mass at the center, acting as both rupture and lifeline, as if clarity briefly floods an otherwise soot-stained atmosphere. The composition pivots between construction and erasure: sharp, gestural marks build a skyline while broad, pale space dissolves it, suggesting the precarious endurance of place amid time’s continual repainting. What remains is a poised tension between bustle and quiet—an urban spirit held together by light, fracture, and the persistence of color.