A Shrine Drawn in Light

Conceived as a small sacred enclosure within a luxury apartment, the temple is designed as an artwork in marble rather than as a conventional shrine. A series of precisely cut and layered marble planes constructs an imagined landscape around the central place of worship: foliage forms a canopy overhead, birds move through the composition, a peacock inhabits the branches, while deer and a white Nandi occupy the lower landscape. At its centre, the marble is cut away to suggest the profile of a traditional temple threshold. Delicate perforations and suspended motifs reinterpret familiar ornamental geometries at the scale of a drawing. Concealed illumination passes through these incisions and between the layers, allowing light itself to complete the composition. By day, the work is read through the subtle tonal differences, edges and shadows of the marble; when illuminated, it becomes almost weightless: a luminous silhouette suspended within the timber enclosure. The monochromatic material palette deliberately avoids excessive ornament and colour. Instead, cut, depth, shadow and light give richness to the surface. Small metallic accents and sculptural figures appear selectively against the pale stone, introducing moments of warmth without disturbing the quietness of the composition. The result sits somewhere between temple, sculpture and illuminated drawing: a contemporary interpretation of sacred space compressed into the intimate scale of the home. Artwork / Interior Installation

Concept, design and marble-cut artwork