Shiva (Hidden Depths)

This work centers on an imposing, vessel-like form cleaved by a rigid vertical seam, as though the image were suturing together two states of being—containment and release. Veils of ochre, moss green, and embered reds drift across the surface like sedimented memories, while the faint handwritten traces suggest a private archive half-submerged beneath paint. The small, clasp-like punctuation at the lower midline reads as both fastening and wound, turning the object into a metaphor for the self: held together by pressure, yet radiant with internal weather. Against the deep blue ground, the figure appears to hover, a quiet monument to resilience where intimacy and industry meet in a single, breathing skin.