Kaliya (Untitled) Ink Charcoal Contemporary Drawing

Suspended in a stark field of white, the central figure twists upward with a dancer’s tension, its crosshatched body both vulnerable and defiant as it clutches thin, reed-like lines that read as lifelines or restraints. Beneath, a chorus of pale, tubular forms unfurls in a slow vortex, their fingertip ends reaching like a collective hunger—at once protective and engulfing—creating a gravity that seems to pull the body into a dreaming undercurrent. The restrained monochrome heightens the work’s psychological charge: light becomes silence, and the swirling mass becomes an ambiguous sea of memory, desire, and social pressure, asking whether the ascent is liberation or merely another turn in the spiral.