The brief was to put a Mohiniyattam dancer into mural grammar without freezing her — the dance is all lasya, the soft continuous sway, and flat lamp-black outline can kill that fast. So we held to medium-light density: one large dancer at about two-thirds of the panel, mid-araimandi with a raised mudra, her off-white kasavu costume left as a calm flat field so the gold tissue border and the curve of her torso do the moving. The round green disc behind her head is a borrowed device — in devotional panels that would be a prabhavali for a deity, here it quietly elevates a performer, which is exactly the fusion we wanted. The two seated women with bowed string and hand drum are kept small in the lower corner so they read as accompaniment, and the brass nilavilakku and coconut grove place us firmly in a Kerala recital evening rather than a generic stage.