Sleeping Buddha

The composition centers on the reclining Buddha, rendered in luminous golds that read as both corporeal presence and dissolving radiance, as if the body were already becoming light. Around this tranquil axis, the painting fractures into layered vignettes—brickwork, figures, and a cool blue throng—suggesting history, memory, and community orbiting a single moment of inward silence. White birds alight along the robe like fleeting thoughts settling into stillness, while the lotus and attendant figures quietly stage the passage from earthly form to awakened continuity. The warm-to-cool chromatic drift carries the viewer from intimate serenity into a wider, collective horizon, turning repose into a tender meditation on impermanence and compassion.