Ferry Ghat (Ferry Crossing)

Rendered in stark black line against a weathered ochre field, the ferry and truss bridge become silhouettes of industry softened by the patina of memory, as if the scene were pulled from an old print left in sun and salt. The composition hinges on a dialogue of structures: the rigid geometry of bridgework and vessel is counterweighted by the branching lattice of the bare tree, nature’s own scaffolding stretching across the sky. Light is implied rather than described—its absence turns water into a textured plane of quiet movement, suggesting passage, waiting, and the steady choreography of everyday transit. In this restrained palette, the work reads like a meditation on thresholds: shoreline to river, past to present, and the fragile human urge to hold a moment still while everything continues to cross.