Varanasi (A Walk in the Cityscape)

Encircled by a rough halo of ochre and gold, the scene reads like a remembered world seen through a portal—an interior cosmos where geometry replaces architecture and the air is held together by thin, nervous lines. Flat planes of saturated blue and red anchor the composition while hovering discs suggest lanterns or canopy-fruit, imparting a quiet surrealism that turns public space into a private dream. The solitary figure, pared down to emblem and silhouette, advances with measured anonymity, as if testing belonging within a city that has been reduced to pure color-fields and thresholds. In this tension between the tactile, painterly border and the cool, simplified center, the work meditates on modern passage: how we move through constructed environments while carrying an inner, radiant perimeter of experience.