Asraj (Lotus and Spinal Column)

This vividly symmetrical tableau reads like a devotional emblem forged from anatomy and myth: a white lotus crowns a ribbed, spine-like axis while winged, insectoid forms unfurl like ceremonial guardians around a pulsing red core. The incandescent oranges and vermilions churn in spiral currents, turning the background into heat and breath, as if the entire field were a furnace where desire, labor, and renewal are alchemized. Lace-like translucencies soften the surrounding carapace, suggesting protection that is also vulnerability—an exoskeleton rendered tender—while the central vertical scaffold implies discipline holding ecstatic life in balance. In its union of blossom and body, the work proposes transcendence not as escape, but as a flowering that rises directly from the visceral engine of being.