Wisdom Across the City

A richly symbolic figurative composition centers on a bearded scholar in a turban, holding an open book and extending a handshake toward the viewer. Scales of justice, domed religious architecture, laborers, modern high-rises, and small civic scenes gather around him against a saturated red ground, linking tradition, ethics, work, and urban life. Dark contours and visible colored-pencil marks give the hand-rendered scene the character of a socially engaged illustrated mural.