Rishabhnath 7 (Nandi's Mechanical Heart)

Set against a fevered red ground, this surreal creature—part fish, part mechanism—unfurls as a constellation of cog-like suns, its circular eyes and serrated rims suggesting both vigilance and vulnerability. The artist’s molten oranges and ambers glow with internal heat, while soft gradients and crisp cut-edged forms create a tension between organic flesh and engineered precision. A pale moon hovers like a distant witness, and the small burst of green at the bottom reads as fragile life pressing against an encroaching, industrial dream. The image becomes an allegory of modern instinct: nature refashioned into a machine that still aches, watches, and remembers how to breathe.