Rati (Fish and Lovers)

This dreamlike tableau fuses sacred geometry with aquatic myth, where a monumental fish becomes both vessel and cosmos—its scaled body rendered as a tactile mosaic that suggests protection, memory, and time’s sediment. A mandala-like halo turns the creature’s head into an icon, while translucent human silhouettes hover in the background like half-remembered ancestors, pressing the scene toward ritual rather than narrative. The water below is not merely environment but consciousness—strewn with watchful eyes and drifting fragments—so that the small seated figures on the fins read as inner pilgrims inhabiting the body of belief. Muted greys and watery washes hold the space in suspension, allowing the reds and golds to flare like revelations within an otherwise hushed, contemplative atmosphere.