Sweet Summit (Dahi Handi Celebration)

Set against a weathered, parchment-like field, the collage gathers a crowd of cut-out figures into a charged civic theatre where private faces become a collective body. Fine wires and strings crisscross the surface like fragile infrastructure—both connection and constraint—while garlands and devotional motifs lend the scene the tone of ritual, as if celebration and protest share the same breath. The subdued sepia ground holds memory like sediment, yet the sudden punctures of blue and emblematic costume flare as acts of self-definition, insisting on visibility within an entangled social web. In this compressed space of overlapping gazes and gestures, the work reads as an archive of belonging: tender, tense, and insistently unfinished.