The River 1 (Varanasi Dreams)

This work reads like a remembered coastline reconstructed from sensation rather than geography, where faceted spires and clustered rooftops rise from a chorus of saturated oranges and violets, hovering between city and mirage. The composition is built in layered planes—cool, aqueous blues in the foreground opening into warmer strata—so light behaves less as illumination than as a shifting emotional climate, alternately consoling and restless. Fragmented marks and translucent veils suggest time eroding certainty: architecture becomes a signal, a ritual of belonging, while the sea-like field below holds drifting shards of memory that refuse to settle into one narrative.