Shivay (Circular Portrait)

A solitary profile emerges from a molten palimpsest of stamped letters and weathered pigment, as though identity is being excavated rather than portrayed. The face splits into warm ochres and nocturnal violets, where the cool shadows read like memory’s residue—half confession, half concealment—set against a confrontational red that turns the head into a living seal or emblem. Faint botanical traces and a small, moonlike mark hover as intimate symbols, suggesting a private cosmology pressed into the public surface of language. The work holds the tension between selfhood and inscription, proposing that a person is composed as much by what is written over them as by what they manage to reveal.