Meditation 5 (Crimson Center)

Concentric rings marshal the viewer’s gaze inward, where a red, lens-like core pulses with the intensity of an illuminated threshold—part target, part eye, part ember. The surrounding field, mottled with granular textures and earthen golds, reads like an archaeological skin, as though the image has been excavated from memory rather than painted from sight. Vertical bands descend from the center like a ceremonial banner or conduit, translating the radiating geometry into a bodily axis that suggests alignment, initiation, and quiet insistence. In this calibrated stillness, the work becomes a meditation on focus: the way desire, attention, and meaning are disciplined into a single, unwavering point.