About this painting:
Acrylic on canvas | 201740 x 50 cm
This painting presents Mount Agung in Bali as a living, feminine landscape. The mountain rises as a reclining figure whose contours become ridgelines, valleys, and flowing lava veins. Her skin appears geological—striated, folded, and weathered—yet unmistakably alive.
At the center of the composition, her hands part the earth, revealing an eye at the heart, shedding tears of molten light. This fiery channel reads as both volcanic core and creative source, suggesting generation, destruction, and renewal occurring simultaneously. The lava flows downward like arteries through the mountain, illuminating the terrain with heat and movement.
Her face is layered and serene, with multiple profiles emerging from the same form, as if the mountain remembers many ages at once. Above her crown, a smaller, luminous feminine figure rises from her head like vapor or spirit—suggesting breath, awareness, or ancestral memory rather than hierarchy. The sky radiates outward in rippling blue lines, echoing thought, wind, or subtle energy.
A Naga serpent coils upward from mist—an echo of instinct, earth wisdom, with a smoky whisp emerging from its 3rd eye in the form of the Balinese OM symbol. At the base, a Brahman priest makes a prayerful offering to something vast, dangerous, and humbling.
