Saurashtra (Geometric Composition)

This work stages a ritual of geometry where nested frames corral a volatile field of reds and ochres, as if the painting were both boundary and breach. Bands of dark green and black cut through the surface like architectural lintels, while fractured diamonds and slivers of negative space suggest a mosaic continually being assembled and undone. The pigment reads as scraped and re-laid, letting light flicker along raw edges so that the composition feels at once ceremonial and bruised—order asserted, then tested. In its layered partitions, the piece becomes a meditation on containment: how structure can protect meaning even as it exposes the pressure of what refuses to be contained.