Banaras 2

This work assembles a harbor-city from fractured planes of pigment, where sail-like whites puncture a dense, smoldering mass of umber, charcoal, and ember tones, as if light is trying to navigate through congestion. The composition oscillates between construction and dissolution—architectural silhouettes emerge, then recede into misty atmospheres—suggesting memory’s imperfect grip on place. Warm, bruised color fields press against cool, vaporous spaces, creating a psychological tide in which industry, weather, and human passage feel inseparable. What remains is a lyrical tension: a metropolis both buoyant and burdened, held together by the fragile geometry of departure and return.