Sacred Spaces - Asma Menon

At the centre of this painting stands a tree so dense with line and texture it seems to breathe. Its trunk spirals inward, asking you to slow down and look again. Around it, hooded figures emerge from the rock face, half absorbed into the earth, as though the sacred lives not in any building but in the land itself. Above, bare trees burn against a red sky. Below, still water holds its silence. Menon gives us three registers of the world, sky, earth and water, and places the living tree at the axis of all of them. Rooted. Unmoving. Quietly endless.