This one honours the Pardhan themselves — the bardic clan within the Gond who were traditionally the keepers of song and story, the very community Jangarh Singh Shyam came from. The brief was to draw the singer large and still at the centre, eyes shut mid-phrase, with the bana fiddle as his second body: its peacock headstock is no accident, since the instrument's crest is genuinely carved as a bird in folk practice, and Gond loves to let an object bloom into an animal. The forest answers him in a handful of creatures rather than a crowd — a deer, a hare, two birds — so the listening grove reads as quiet attention, not clutter. Keeping it medium-light lets the scale-row vest, the comb-row turban and the plumed headstock each stay legible against the dark green ground, which holds the figure like the hush before a verse.