Ramayana

A silhouetted, animal-bodied musician—rendered in dense black and laced with meticulous white incisions—moves across a field of red-and-ochre geometry, as if tradition itself were a tiled architecture supporting the figure’s passage. The repeating motifs and suspended triangular forms create a rhythmic canopy, turning the background into a kind of visual percussion that echoes the strumming gesture. Against this disciplined patterning, the gold-toned instrument blooms like a held ember, suggesting song as both offering and endurance—an intimate warmth carried through a world of inherited signs. The work balances folk immediacy with near-calligraphic precision, where identity is less portrayed than woven: a narrative stitched from ornament, memory, and sound.