Shristi (Woman with Parrot)

Suspended in a field of unbroken blue, the central figure becomes a living axis where ornament, flora, and creaturely forms braid into a single mythic ecology. The careful layering of warm golds and pinks against verdant greens turns decoration into meaning—jewels and textiles read like inherited memory, while the coiled fish and budding branches suggest fertility, cyclic time, and the quiet labor of sustenance. Her upward gaze and poised hands hold a tension between offering and receiving, as if the work meditates on stewardship: the body as sanctuary, and nature as both adornment and responsibility.