Tokri (Tokri (Basket))

A single overturned vessel, rendered in bruised bronzes against a cool, aqueous ground, becomes a quiet monument to displacement—its hollow mouth reading as both wound and shelter. The composition’s weight settles low and left, while the distant, softened forms recede into a fog of space, intensifying the sense of abandonment and suspended time. Light skims across the rim and inner crust like a last ember, suggesting that what has been emptied still retains memory, sediment, and the trace of human handling. In its restrained stillness, the work meditates on collapse not as spectacle but as aftermath—where silence and residue speak louder than presence.