Mother (Mother Teresa and Children)

The composition stages compassion as a vertical struggle: a hooded, blue-and-white figure anchors the left like a quiet monolith, while a red field to the right swarms with fractured bodies, their angular gestures suggesting panic, displacement, and collective unrest. Stark contours and flattened planes deny individual identity, turning each silhouette into an emblem of the many, yet the central embrace introduces a tender countercurrent—care as an act of resistance. The chromatic opposition of blue and red reads as sanctuary versus crisis, while the raw, unfinished ground leaves the scene suspended, as if mercy must continually be re-won against the noise of the world.