Untitle Acrylic Still-Life Painting

This meticulously rendered tower of books becomes an improvised monument to knowledge, where typography, spines, and margins form a dense urban architecture of learning. Against the velvety black ground, the sharp whites and greys read like etched relief, while sudden reds and saffron notes—especially the hanging “Art Book of India” tag—punctuate the stack with cultural insistence and urgency. The open manuscript at the crown feels less like a beginning than a revelation, suggesting that tradition and scholarship continuously unfold above the weight of disciplines below. In its precarious balance, the work speaks to the lived experience of education in India: a gravity of inherited texts, an aspiration toward mastery, and the quiet drama of carrying many worlds at once.