Self Protection (The Kitchen Goddess)

A many-armed, deity-like figure stands on a treadmill as if divinity has been drafted into routine, its ceremonial poise unsettled by the insistence of mechanical progress. Rendered in crisp outlines and buoyant, toy-bright color, the composition stages a tension between sacred iconography—lotus, halo, skull garlands—and the banal tools of labor and consumption, turning each hand into a competing directive. The pale ground and frontal symmetry flatten space into an emblem, suggesting that modern life venerates motion itself, even when it becomes a ritual of exhaustion.