Banaras 15

This vertical abstraction reads like a weathered palimpsest, where warm siennas and ash-toned veils hover above a dense, fractured core of blues, blacks, and ember reds. The composition pulls the eye through a turbulent midsection—scraped, layered, and rebuilt—suggesting a memory in the act of being revised rather than a scene being described. Light is not depicted so much as excavated: pale passages open like breath between collisions of pigment, letting tenderness surface amid the grit. In its tension between erosion and ignition, the work becomes a meditation on resilience—how beauty persists when structure breaks and re-forms.