Mating Seahorses

Developed over five years, Mating Seahorses is a monumental stained- glass installation spanning nearly forty feet. The work began as hand drawings, translated into full- scale stencils and refined to micro- precision before being realised entirely by hand. Thousands of individual glass fragments were cut and soldered, with no two adjoining pieces sharing the same colour- a discipline that lends the work its depth and cohesion.

Installed above water at Central Park, Flower Valley (Sohna, south of Gurugram, India), the piece responds continuously to light, shifting through the day and glowing after dusk. Fragile in material yet architectural in presence, it affirms stained glass as a living, contemporary medium.

Seahorses are one of the few species in which the male carries the pregnancy, following a delicate courtship dance in which the female transfers her eggs into his brood pouch, where they are carried until birth.