Banaras 8 (Inner Landscape)

This abstract composition stages a volatile bloom of vermilion and ember tones suspended within a mist of chalky whites and bruised greys, as if heat is trying to speak through fog. Angular incisions and scraped passages fracture the surface, turning gesture into a kind of cartography—routes of impact, repair, and residue—while pockets of turquoise and ochre act as brief inhalations amid the blaze. The work holds a tension between eruption and erasure, suggesting memory as something simultaneously combustive and fragile, perpetually rewritten by light and abrasion.