Kota Neelima's 2018 series of paintings, Metaphors of the Moon, charts the trajectories of the mind as it travels from absence to present in an eternal cycle. The mind is the metaphor for the Moon. It represents the cyclic process of thought, through its creation, immersion to regeneration, and also is a metaphor for absence and presence. The lessons of the Moon are about the fragility of reconciliation and the assurance of restoration. The paintings are a visualization of the individualized collective mind that embraces the one and the infinite, with the same ease as it deals with universal pain, suffering, and loss. The mind engages with natural ease with the task of the larger and impersonal, rather than the smaller and personal.