Prakriti 3 Charcoal Nature Drawing

This monochrome landscape unfolds like a remembered place rather than a mapped one, where the pale field becomes a quiet stage for shifting atmospheres and unspoken weather. The heavy, crosshatched sky presses down with a nocturnal gravity, while the luminous ground and softly swelling hills create a countercurrent of calm, as if light is being held and rationed. A single tree trunk anchors the left edge, its dark verticality acting as a sentinel that measures time and endurance against the broad, wind-brushed expanse. In the tension between dense mark-making and open breathing space, the work suggests solitude not as emptiness, but as a sustained, contemplative presence.