Nrutya Chandrika 76 (Woman with Bird and Moon)

Suspended in a field of burnished ochres and ash-gray drips, the figure emerges as both icon and apparition—her bowed head crowned with petal-like forms that read as ritual ornament and quiet burden. The composition fractures the body into angular shards and translucent planes, as if memory itself were a collage of sensations stitched together by thin, decisive lines. Warm light pools across the torso while darker, mechanical geometries press inward, creating a tender tension between sensual presence and constructed identity. In this interplay of softness and abrasion, the work suggests intimacy under pressure—beauty held in the same hand as restraint, and still refusing to dim.