| Mahabodhi stages a dialogue between spiritual enlightenment and morality as the law of the land. Named after the sacred site where the Buddha attained awakening, the work invokes the architecture of revelation—but reframes it through the infrastructure of civic order. The black base, layered with white brushwork, sets the stage for segmentation: dotted white lines divide the composition like legal boundaries or ritual diagrams.
To the right, a fragment of the U.S. Constitution appears—stylized, partial, and sacred in its own register. It evokes law as scripture, governance as belief, and the American mythos of moral clarity. Opposing it is the implied weight of spiritual awakening—unwritten, unspoken, but present in the title and structure.
Below, two large truck tires marked XDA ENERGY anchor the composition. These are not decorative—they are supports. Designed for endurance and efficiency, they symbolize the industrial weight required to uphold both spiritual and civic systems. One tire bears the legacy of enlightenment, the other the machinery of law. Together, they stabilize the diagram above, suggesting that morality—whether divine or constitutional—requires infrastructure to hold.
Mahabodhi presents the way spiritual ideals and legal frameworks coexist—often uneasily. It stages morality as a structure held aloft by systems of labor, belief, and industrial force.
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