One of the artist’s first stained- glass works, executed at architectural scale. Designed for backlighting, the piece uses transparency and color to create a quiet, luminous presence integrated directly into the surrounding space. Inspired by scenes witnessed by the artist on the ghats of the Ganga, the work depicts a swaddled child protected by a rising serpent, with divinity and awakening radiating through the mother’s illuminated form.
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.
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