The Watchful Hour portrays an elderly woman seated in quiet stillness, her composed presence conveying authority, vigilance, and restraint.
This work sits at the intersection of tradition and contemporary practice, carrying the weight of lived experience into a modern visual language.
 
This piece is a digital artistic interpretation based on an original photograph. It honours the realism of the camera while adding the emotive depth of painterly abstraction.
Original photograph by P. Karunakaran, used with permission.