Kamdhenu Dry Pastel Animal Drawing

This winged chimera—half lion, half human, and wholly dream—stands in quiet profile like a guardian of an interior myth, its pale body softly burnished against an ochre field that reads as timeless desert or parchment. The crisp contouring and restrained shading grant the figure an icon-like stillness, while the floating geometric emblems above the head suggest a fragmented halo or a mind unmoored, as if thought itself has been ritualized into pure form. A small band of triangular color on the flank punctures the serenity with playful signal, hinting at coded identity—tribal, ceremonial, or mnemonic. The work ultimately stages a tender tension between power and reverie, proposing hybridity not as monstrosity but as a dignified state of becoming.