Domestic Wall Art

Domestic — 4 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Cheriyal scroll painting comes from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted for generations by the Nakashi artist community on a signature red ground. Traditionally these were long cloth scrolls unrolled episode by episode by travelling balladeers who sang epics and caste-origin legends to village audiences, with stacked horizontal registers used for sequential scenes. The haldi (turmeric) ceremony is a pre-wedding rite across India in which family members apply a paste of turmeric to the bride and groom for blessing, auspiciousness and glow. In Telangana it is sung over with the dappu frame drum in the courtyard of the family home. Tulsi (holy basil) is revered in Vaishnav households as a form of the goddess and a daily seva, watered and circled each morning — a homely devotion close to the Pushtimarg (Vallabh) spirit of seva centred on Shrinathji, the child-Krishna of the Nathdwara haveli-temple in Rajasthan. A pichhwai (literally 'that which hangs at the back') is the painted cloth hung behind the deity to set the scene; here its grammar frames a household ritual.

Updated 22 Jun 2026