Abstract Banaras Ghat 1 (City in Red) (Varanasi Temple Sunrise)

This painting distills a riverfront city into stacked planes of incandescent terracotta and ember-red, where architecture becomes memory—half solid, half dissolving into light. A lattice of fine, wandering lines stitches the facades together like invisible routes of commerce and longing, while the small boat in the foreground anchors the scene in human scale, poised between departure and return. The painterly abrasion and layered blocks of color suggest time-worn walls and accumulated lives, turning the urban silhouette into a warm, vibrating meditation on habitation, transience, and ritual along the water’s edge.