Four Immeasurables as Visual Feelings

"Faccia da Margherita" embodies primarily empathetic joy and loving-kindness among the Four Immeasurables central to contemplative practice. The painting's vibrant yellow petals radiating from a rich orange-red center convey empathetic joy through the daisy's inherent symbolism of innocence, cheerfulness, and new beginnings, while the soft focus and warm color relationships cultivate loving-kindness, as an unconditional friendliness toward all beings. Visual elements embody these qualities through the color-field strategy, where saturated yellows symbolize friendship, wisdom, and happiness, and the glowing central disc serves as a focal point that draws viewers into a meditative state. The sfumato technique produces an atmospheric quality reminiscent of beginner's mind awareness—that state of seeing things as if for the first time without preconceptions—transforming an ordinary flower into a vehicle for emotional transmission. This painting serves as a visual transmission of Dr. Mehta's decades of practicing medicine with the Four Immeasurables, creating emotional resonance that activates reward pathways in the brain, reduces cortisol levels, and elicits feelings of joy, gratitude, and connection. The work demonstrates how contemporary art serves as a therapeutic intervention, creating a non-stigmatizing setting for emotional healing where viewers can experience empathetic joy—that rare capacity to rejoice in the happiness of others without envy—through the simple act of contemplating a flower's radiant presence, thereby making the painting a transmission vehicle for wellness and actualized visual joy.​

Large Canvas Experience

At 53×40 inches, this painting becomes an immersive environment, creating what scholars call contemplative immersion, in which scale becomes a transformative agent of perception. The substantial dimensions allow color to fill peripheral vision, fundamentally altering the relationship between viewer and artwork—no longer observed from distance but encountered as an enveloping presence that commands physical space with authority. Extended contemplation reveals how this large format creates optical vibrations through the painting's soft gradations between yellow petals and orange center, producing effects where forms seem to advance and recede simultaneously, engaging what neuroscience identifies as the perception-action loop that causes viewers to bodily move with and be moved by the artwork. The warm color palette—yellows evoking sunshine and energy, oranges radiating vitality and enthusiasm—triggers emotional modulation as viewers standing before this wall-sized canvas experience color not as surface decoration but as tactile atmosphere, creating associations where vibrant hues suggest sound frequencies (bright, ringing tones), temperature (solar warmth), and movement (outward radiating energy). This impactful scale enables the painting to function as focal point that anchors entire rooms, transforming living spaces into healing sanctuaries where daily encounters with the work provide repeated opportunities for mindfulness practice, stress reduction, and emotional regulation—the daisy's cheerful presence serving as visual reminder to embrace joy, simplicity, and renewal in an accessible, non-intellectual way that speaks directly to the senses.