Deep Current, ebru (battal), pigments and ox gall on paper
An expansive field of cobalt and ultramarine battal forms stretches across the surface, interlinked by ivory and umber veins that cut through the blue like submerged fault lines. The color saturation is confident and immersive, yet carefully modulated: darker pools anchor the composition while lighter cells hover, lending the surface a sense of depth rather than weight. Subtle internal rings within the battal shapes suggest layers of time suspended in water.
Movement here is continuous but unhurried. The eye travels along branching channels, pausing briefly in rounded basins before being carried onward. The veining remains elastic and sharply defined, revealing a finely calibrated balance of pigment density and ox gall—enough force to separate, enough restraint to hold cohesion. Deep Current reads as an underwater landscape: not turbulent, not still, but governed by slow, persistent motion where depth itself becomes the dominant presence.
