**The Ragi — Amritsar, India**

Inside the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar, this oil portrait of a ragi—a musician devoted to singing Sikh scripture—shows how we create a visual language of the sacred. The sunglasses appear out of place, introducing an unexpected humor into the solemnity of religious portraiture in general. Yet by being rendered in oil and hung within a sacred setting, this everyday object also begins to be absorbed into that same visual tradition, becoming part of how the sacred is represented and remembered.