Life Wheel 26 (A Glimpse of Kolkata)

This work stages the city as a small, vivid nucleus held inside the cold precision of a mechanical eye, where concentric rings of metal and shadow compress lived experience into a single, decisive point. The stark red field heightens the sense of urgency, as if the surrounding apparatus is both warning sign and aperture—an instrument that frames, surveils, and protects in the same breath. By magnifying the everyday street—its figures, signage, and traffic—within an engineered circumference, the piece meditates on how modern life is increasingly encountered through devices that turn human motion into a curated, controllable image.