Nilgiri 2 (Winter's Embrace)

This work surges with the sensation of a body in motion—an almost-figurative presence emerging and dissolving within a tide of broken brushstrokes. Cool blues and milky whites collide with sudden deposits of ochre, suggesting light caught in turbulence, as though memory or breath is briefly illuminated before being pulled back into the current. The composition pivots around a central swell that reads like a cresting wave or a turning torso, making the surrounding field feel both expansive and pressurized. In that tension, the painting speaks to transformation: the self as something continually formed by force, weather, and time.