Procession Series 2 (Village Procession)

Set against a velvety black ground, the procession emerges like a ritual memory—figures, cattle, and canopy held in a compressed, ceremonial space where movement becomes devotion. The warm ochres, vermilions, and earthen greens form a rhythmic braid across the surface, while the tactile, stitched-like texture lends each garment a hand-wrought dignity, as if tradition itself has been patiently layered into being. At the center, the seated figure under the crimson arch reads as both protected and exposed, a quiet axis around which music, labor, and communal witness revolve. The work ultimately speaks to collective identity—how celebration and burden intertwine, and how a community carries its sacred moments forward through sound, step, and shared weight.