Samudramanthan (Tribal Totem Cosmic Balance) Ceramic Religious Sculpture

This sculptural assemblage reads like a portable cosmology: a human-animal base, lavishly incised with rhythmic patterning, bears an improbable vertical world of baskets, vessels, and miniature figures that rises like a totem of lived memory. The stark, almost clinical white ground sharpens every contour, turning the object into an island of myth where playful ornament and devotional density coexist in uneasy balance. Its upward stacking of forms suggests a narrative of ascent—ritual, labor, and storytelling accumulating into a single axis—while the grounded creature below anchors the spectacle in the body, insisting that the sacred is carried on the back of the everyday.