"Festival of the Phoenix Sun" is now open and on view @galerielj till September 23rd (gallery closed in August). The works propose a syncretism of traditional narratives based on Egyptian, Roman, Aztec mythologies, shamanic and animist cults, Buddhist rites, and 15th-century European cartography. Image: (slightly cropped) "Bennu and Futuraheliopolis" 2021. Watercolour, gouache and ink on paper. . . . . . . . #rithikamerchant #galerielj #festivalofthephoenixsun #fineart #visualart #worksonpaper #contemporarypainting #watercolouronpaper #womenartist #cosmos #newworld #worldbuilding #mythology #myth #bennu #heliopolis #cartography #floraandfauna #botanical #heron