Create a sculptural cut-paper relief with crisp layered edges, raised embossed folds, soft fibrous paper texture and a chalky matte finish, in harmonious matte paper tones with gentle tonal shading and deep cast shadows between layers; elegant flat cutouts with minimal, simplified features. Shiva with a serpent in a tall frame: Shiva seated serenely in layered cut paper with a large coiled serpent rising calmly behind him and its hood spreading like a canopy over his head, a third eye and a crescent moon in the matted hair, a trident and a small drum beside him, a halo of stacked pale paper circles.
Light: a soft light from the upper left with deep cast shadows between the stacked paper layers, a chalky matte palette of dusty blue-grey, cream, sage and terracotta, a halo of stacked pale circles; calm, tactile, ceremonial.
Tall 9:16 portrait frame, composed vertically with the main line of the scene rising through the height of the frame. A respectful, dignified depiction of Shiva, a deity still worshipped, with accurate traditional iconography: serene, fully clothed in an ochre dhoti or tiger-skin wrap as in traditional art, never comic, sexualised or grotesque; no readable script, no Om or other lettering.
