This paired work emerged from the artist’s time at the burning ghats of Varanasi- where devotion, grief, beauty, and neglect exist simultaneously. Working at architectural scale, Bakshi turned to stained glass for its ability to both reveal and wound: light passes through the surface without softening it. Brutal, radiant, and unforgiving, the material allows illumination to coexist with sharpness, mirroring the moral clarity and violence of the place itself. These were the artist’s first stained- glass works, created experimentally, with scale, light, and material leading the narrative.