DESIGN BRIEF: horizontal-band symmetry for a fishing crossing, not the tourist poster that stacks sun, moon, spiral, and chauk until the ochre disappears. River boat with pole is a Mokhada grammar problem — how do you show shore labour, mid-river transit, and landing trade in one vertical frame without perspective depth or a tarpa circle stealing the centre? Three registers was the answer: upper bank for net cast and hut life, middle band for the crescent hull hero, lower bank for the exchange basket. What we refused: concentric dance rings, central chauk ritual geometry, vanishing-point river perspective, and the generic village panorama filler. What we kept legible: diamond cross-hatch hull texture, steersman pole with fish at the tip, four rowers in paired lean, overflowing central catch basket, and mirrored shore net triangles above and below the water band. Light-mid density (~50% fill) leaves ochre breath between wavy lines — the empty ground between palm fronds and boat rim is composition, not unfinished wall.