Giant Flower Over Sikh Kirtan on Library Table

Dust coats a wooden library table in Sheberghan where a Sikh congregation sits cross-legged. Warm string lights hang above, casting pools of yellow illumination on their turbans and thick wool shawls. Frost lines the edge of the table surface. A massive flower grows directly from the wood, its stem rising to the height of a tree. The bloom towers over the seated figures, its petals spreading wide against the dark winter twilight. Negative space surrounds the group, showing the scale of the impossible plant. The rough texture of the dust rests beside the smooth, vibrant surface of the giant petals. A shadow from the flower falls across the edge of the table.