Banaras In Green (Banaras in Green)

A monumental canopy of ink-black branches presses into the frame like a protective shadow, turning the landscape beneath into a stage of silhouettes and bright, fractured color. Against saturated greens and sudden orange accents, two suspended boats hover in uneasy stillness—tokens of passage that feel paused between departure and return, as if time itself has been caught in the boughs. The central domed form reads as both shelter and obstruction, its dense darkness punctured by a small aperture of patterned light that suggests a private interior life within the weight of the exterior world. In this tension between flat graphic clarity and lyrical natural motifs, the work evokes memory as a layered terrain—simultaneously pastoral and slightly haunted, serene yet insistently unresolved.