Ganesha 1 (Blessing)

This mixed-media icon cradles a simplified Ganesha within a stitched, translucent skin, as if the deity is being preserved like a relic—both protected and vulnerably exposed. The orange figure glows against a cracked blue ground, while leaf-like greens at crown and base suggest renewal that rises from within constraint rather than comfort. Tangled wirework forms a restless halo, turning devotion into a physical labor of binding and mending, and the perimeter stitches read like sutures—repairing the sacred in a world that frays at its edges. In this tension between hardness and fragility, the work becomes a quiet meditation on resilience, where obstacle-removal is reframed as the ongoing act of holding things together.