Rajabai Clock Tower Charcoal Cityscape Painting

Rising like a solitary memory through veils of rain, the clock tower is rendered in velvety monochrome washes that let architecture feel less like stone and more like a lived atmosphere. The composition hinges on a powerful vertical ascent, while the softened skyline recedes into mist, suggesting a city that dissolves at the edges of perception. Below, small umbrella-bearing figures drift across reflective ground, turning the street into a trembling mirror where time—signaled by the clock—measures not minutes but the quiet persistence of human movement. The work carries a gentle tension between permanence and passing, as if the tower anchors a collective past while the present slips, puddle by puddle, into forgetting.