Ashirwad (The Many Faces of Ganesha)

This layered portrayal of Ganesha multiplies the deity into a procession of overlapping presences, as if devotion itself has been refracted into several simultaneous faces—each one watching, listening, and remembering. Saturated jewel tones and weathered whites collide in a textured haze, where splatters and abrasions read like time, ritual, and lived experience pressing into the icon. The central figure, with blessing hand raised, anchors the tumult while surrounding heads dissolve into atmosphere, suggesting that protection and uncertainty can coexist within the same sacred breath. In its dynamic compression of space, the work turns reverence into movement—an inner pilgrimage rendered through pigment, ornament, and luminous fracture.