Varanasi 2

This painting constructs a city of memory rather than masonry, where fractured façades and window-like apertures rise as anxious silhouettes against a sulfurous, sunlit field. The composition tilts and interlocks like a half-recalled dream—warm ochres and ember reds pushing forward while cooler blues and charcoals recede, creating a restless spatial pulse that never settles into certainty. Light behaves less as illumination than as pressure, prying open passages and corridors that suggest both shelter and exposure, as if the architecture were confessing the lives it contains. In its layered, scraped surfaces and looping structural lines, the work becomes a meditation on urban intimacy: the way habitation can feel simultaneously communal, haunted, and tenderly unstable.