The paintings, drawings, and installations of Manik Raj Nakra take on the possibility of addressing the ancient world as his own. A world of teeming jungles where four headed leopards perch on old world ruins and silver teethed monkeys pray for our salvation. Nakra's work applies a contemporary lens onto Indian iconography, colonial anachronisms, artifacts from early civilizations, and ceremonial folklore to explore themes such as egoism, lust, and self-sabotage. These themes, handled with wild colors, stark compositions, and "pop" sensibilities, illuminate the historically rooted, but contemporarily relevant narratives on power, paranoia, the dreams and desires of his time and place.