Hide And Seek At Junnar

This diptych stages a quiet confrontation between instinct and intellect: a leopard, rendered in burnished ochres, turns its attentive gaze toward a reclining human figure composed in nocturnal blues, as if the two halves of the psyche have been laid side by side. The seam down the center reads like a psychological fault line, yet the shared horizon and repeating tessellated texture knit the worlds together, suggesting that division is only a temporary illusion. Light seems to seep through the surface in small, mosaic-like flecks, turning the scene into a memory or dream—where predation softens into vigilance, and the human’s pose becomes not dominance but surrender to an older, animal knowing.