Durga 2

Framed like an icon within an arched threshold, the figure emerges from a dusk-dark ground as a gilded apparition—half deity, half memory—its closed eyes and red accents holding a hush that feels ceremonial. The surface is densely patterned with leaf-like motifs and angular totems, a golden thicket that both shelters and entangles, suggesting abundance that borders on claustrophobia. At the center, a pale vertical form reads as keyhole, pillar, or wound—an opening through which the self might pass, yet also a sealed cavity where longing is stored. The work meditates on devotion and enclosure, letting light behave like a relic: radiant, tactile, and quietly melancholic.