Totonaut™

Go far without fear.
Make a statement without having to speak.
Let your dark side light your path.

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The Works

SURVIVOR — a black rabbit with claw marks across its back and a septum piercing, sitting upright in white space

SURVIVOR

n.

Some survive by adapting. This one survived by refusing to.

SWING — a woman in a saree on a swing, hair in motion, gaze steady and direct

SWING

n.

Freedom isn’t the absence of weight.

ENTANGLED — a figure with glowing glasses crouched in a crack of light, surrounded by tangled wires and birds

ENTANGLED

adj.

The mind never clocks out.

MIGRANT — a migratory bird, its feathers covered in the names of countries and cities

MIGRANT

n.

A quiet satire on the theatre of belonging. They are unbothered.

LONGING — a cat on a dark shore beside empty boats, watching a single distant light on the water

LONGING

n.

The light you can see but cannot yet hold.

MINE — a child in white surrounded by a dark ornate world, two decorated hands reaching toward him

MINE

pron.

She knows what her hands are. She reaches anyway.

SUBMISSION — an elephant’s trunk curled around an ankus resting lightly against it

SUBMISSION

n.

An ankus simply resting against its trunk. The constant terror an elephant lives with.

The Artist

Portrait of the artist, in black and white

Shyamal Raghavan

My work lives in the space between stillness and motion, doubt and courage. Working digitally in monochrome, each piece begins without a destination — I follow the marks until something true emerges. I am drawn to the quiet drama of silhouette, texture, and negative space. These are not illustrations of ideas. They are the ideas themselves, finding their form.

Collect

Every work is available as a framed archival edition — a museum-grade giclée print of the digital original, numbered, and delivered ready to hang.

DM @totonaut.world to collect