The brief was to put the act of narration at the centre: not just the painted deities, but the bhopa pointing to them and the gathered audience receiving the story. A central-deity layout with a framed inner register solved it — a painting-within-the-painting of tiny horses and deities sits behind the standing narrator, so you read the storyteller and the story in one glance. Among the Rathwa the recitation is part of how a Pithora lives; the bhopa speaks the lore and the lakhara's wall is animated by being narrated, so giving him the lamp and the raised hand is true to the rite. The seated women below are the community the wall is for; keeping them in calm rows with medium-light spacing lets each sari and pot stay readable instead of becoming a blur of devotees.