Nautanki Series 1 Acrylic Figurative Painting

A radiant mosaic of crimson, saffron, and electric blue constructs a face that feels less like a portrait than a threshold—serene, impassive, and quietly monumental. The composition fractures into panels and vertical drips, as if memory and identity are being layered, erased, and repainted in real time, while the smaller mask-like visage hovers as an ancestral echo or inner double. Hands and floral motifs punctuate the field like half-spoken gestures, suggesting touch, protection, and ritual amid the heat of saturated color. Light behaves conceptually rather than naturally: it bands across the visage in luminous strata, turning the self into a stained-glass icon of contemporary belonging and private myth.