Water Lilies

The lotus pond is Keerthi's signature ground, and she works it from every distance. Up close, a single pad becomes a stage for water: droplets sit on the waxy surface like cut glass, each one carrying its own bent reflection. Sometimes the leaf floats on a truthfully painted pond with koi moving beneath it; just as often she lifts it onto a field of saturated colour - turquoise, red, magenta, chrome yellow - so the specimen reads with the clarity of a plate in a botanist's book.