Gond 23

This intricate drawing stages a gentle upheaval: koi-like forms cascade downward in a clustered current, their patterned bodies—scales, stripes, and rippling linework—creating a tactile chorus of surfaces that feels both ornamental and alive. The restrained palette of black, white, and rose-red turns each fish into a moving accent of warmth, as if breath or pulse has been threaded through an otherwise meditative, ink-bound world. Below, thorned branches bloom into rounded, cellular flowers, suggesting that beauty here is inseparable from defense—growth earned through friction. The composition reads as an ecosystem of interdependence, where descent becomes a kind of rooting, and motion resolves into a quiet, resilient flourishing.