Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Tia Babbar

Just Once, Over and Over

I depict a banyan tree, its roots hanging and tangling above the ground, suspended like a breath held in the air. Its branches and roots tangle, twist, stretch outward like memory itself. The banyan begins as an epiphyte clinging to a host, and over time it overtakes, becoming both itself and everything it grows upon. It is a symbol of both the eternal self and the embodied self: rooted in the earth, yet always reaching outward, upward, inward. Above it all, a flicker of sun poured through the canopy—brief, golden, filling everything for a moment.