A bright bubblegum- pink cross alive with looping forms, Squiggle draws on the delicacy of jewellery, filigree, chains, tiny pendants, translated into paint. The side borders echo bamboo bangles, playful yet architectural. It embodies the artist’s belief that surrender isn’t solemn; it can be joyful, ornamental, even childlike, while still pulling the viewer into a deeper quiet.
In this series, the artist turns to the cross not as a symbol of religion, but as a symbol of surrender- the moment where individuality drops and one discovers what remains when the “I” is no more. The works are inspired by ornate historical crosses, the quiet power of bejewelled forms, and the idea echoed across cultures that awakening happens only when the seeker disappears.
Every canvas is embedded with hand- picked Indian textiles, chosen like small relics of devotion- cloth that once touched human hands, markets, households. The cross becomes an object of contemplation, not to convert anyone, but to shift the energy of a room: a reminder that the self is one, that innocence must be protected, and that beauty itself can be a door to stillness.
