Size: 12" x 12"

A mandala of rare contrasting beauty, where a densely jewelled white relief bloom floats against a ground of aged gold and deep teal that has been worked and weathered until it resembles oxidised metal or the patinated surface of an ancient lacquered panel. The mandala itself is built in pure white with a scalloped, petal-shaped outer boundary — softer and more organic in form than the geometric precision of Vaishali's other works — giving this piece a quality that is simultaneously sacred and intimate. Every element within the white field carries its own stone: navette cuts in ruby and aurora, round crystals in silver and champagne, baguettes, teardrops, and triangular forms all placed with the density of fine jewellery work. The background bleeds between deep forest green, aged bronze, and raw gold, uneven and alive, making the white mandala appear to glow from within rather than sit upon the surface. This is a piece of quiet spiritual authority — the lotus rising, as it always does, from something far darker than itself.