The visage of a city is defined by bodies, sounds, textures and time itself in perpetual motion; the possibility of solitude is almost paradoxical. As an artist based in Howrah, shaped by its dense urban rhythms and industrial landscapes, Anirban Mishra’s practice traces the layered rhythms of urban life while tending closely to the lives that sustain it, often unseen, yet inseparable.Anirban Mishra approaches the world as a close observer, gathering fragments through each encounter and reimagining them to bring into focus details that often recede into the background of city life. His works depict the city devoid of its typical crowds, yet are far from empty. They are teeming with patterns, maze-like and almost psychedelic, echoing the ease with which one can get lost within the rhythms of a city. Within this intensity, a quiet stillness persists. Departing from the swarming streets, Anirban shifts his gaze to singular moments and figures, composing immersive, enclosed spaces that unfold into labyrinthine formations; moving fluidly between interior and exterior worlds, oscillating between observer and participant.For many who inhabit the city, quietude is often imagined as distance, a withdrawal from noise and crowd. Anirban Mishra locates it within the dense throngs, in the quiet recognition of others, and in the spaces between movement and stillness. If the structures of the city are sustained by the unseen, Anirban insists on a reversal - to ask not what we build, but whom we fail to see.