Waterlilies 71 (Tranquil Waters**)

This pondscape stages a quiet dialogue between cool, nocturnal blues and a molten band of amber light, as if the water itself is remembering the sun beneath its surface. Lily pads tessellate across the plane like floating continents, their rounded silhouettes lending calm structure while the blossoms—white and saffron—flare as small, deliberate acts of awakening. The composition’s gentle drift from shadow into radiance suggests a passage from inward stillness to renewed perception, where each bud becomes a promise suspended in reflective silence.