Hava Su (The Keeper of the Flock)

A poised female figure, crowned in cool turquoise, anchors the composition like a quiet witness while a radiant rooster unfurls across her lap, its plume of yellow-green light cutting through a heated field of pinks and ember reds. The scene is constructed as a collage of fractured planes and patterned textiles, where domestic intimacy and public spectacle blur into one another, suggesting memory assembled from shards rather than a single narrative. Behind them, a shadowed crowd of faces and symbols presses forward, turning the tender act of holding into an act of guardianship—an insistence on vitality amid communal noise. The tension between saturated warmth and nocturnal darks reads as a meditation on identity: how private tenderness survives, even glows, inside the tumult of shared stories.