The Gomata (Sacred Cow)

A luminous bovine figure, pared down to elegant contour and stained-glass planes of ochre and ember, stands in poised stillness as if mid-ritual rather than mid-step. The warm, earthen field around it is pricked with flecks of light, while the vertical frieze of miniature cattle and pastoral vignettes reads like a memory-column—ancestry, labor, and myth compressed into a single totem. Against the deep shadow anchoring its body, the animal becomes both offering and guardian, a quiet emblem of abundance whose serenity is edged with solemn reverence. The work’s flat decorative geometry and narrative strip fuse folk iconography with modernist restraint, turning the everyday creature into a symbolic vessel of continuity and devotion.