Mauli (Vithoba's Procession)

A vast, pointillist-like multitude surges across the lower field, each fleck of color reading as an individual pulse within a single communal breath. Above this restless human tide, the dark, smoky expanse opens into a suspended shrine-like bell form—part emblem, part apparition—whose quiet radiance organizes the chaos below into an axis of devotion and gravity. The composition hinges on the tension between density and void: the crowd’s chromatic noise suggests worldly urgency, while the hovering icon, isolated in shadow, speaks to faith as both refuge and unreachable ideal. In that suspended distance, the work becomes a meditation on how collective longing can elevate, but also eclipse, the self.