Temple Ink Cityscape Drawing

Rendered in rigorous black-and-white line, this temple façade becomes less a static monument than a lived density of stone—each hatch and cross-contour translating weight, weathering, and devotion into tactile rhythm. The composition is anchored by a frontal symmetry, yet it breathes through the receding steps and paving lines that pull the viewer inward like a quiet procession toward the darkened doorway. Broad fields of shadow act as a framing silence around the architecture, intensifying the luminous paper as if the sacred space is carved out of absence itself. Between the crisp geometry of the platform and the ornate vertical rise of the shikharas, the drawing holds a tension between human scale and timeless persistence, suggesting ritual as both daily practice and enduring memory.