Buddy 2015

A peacock unfurls like a protective constellation over a sleeping face, its jeweled “eyes” turning plumage into a vigil that feels at once tender and unnervingly aware. The composition hinges on a quiet diagonal—dreamer below, guardian above—where soft, milky light and gilded ground dissolve the boundary between body and ornament, waking and myth. Circular motifs drift across the surface like spores or blessings, suggesting that beauty here is not merely decorative but sentient, a watchful charisma that both shelters innocence and demands reverence. In this suspended hush, the bird becomes a psyche made visible: splendour as sanctuary, and as silent scrutiny.