Untitled 19 (Ghats at Dusk)

This nocturnal architectural tableau turns the city into a psychological labyrinth, where stairways multiply and fold back on themselves like thoughts returning in the dark. Warm, window-lit rectangles puncture the velvety indigo and umber planes, offering brief assurances of life while the heavy shadows insist on distance and secrecy. The composition’s steep diagonals and stacked facades compress space into a rising, almost ritual ascent—suggesting ambition, memory, and the quiet unease of passage through an urban sanctuary. In the tension between illumination and void, the work stages a meditation on how built environments both shelter and estrange, guiding us upward while withholding arrival.