Morning Warm Wall Art

Morning Warm — 2 museum-grade prints that set the mood. 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. Sohrai is a harvest-season wall art of Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand, painted by women of tribal and Kurmi communities in natural earth pigments — manganese black, hematite red, kaolin white and ochre yellow — on a daubed mud wall to welcome cattle home after the rice harvest, around Diwali. Roosters, deer, elephants and peacocks are part of the everyday animal world Sohrai walls celebrate, and a crowing-cock-and-sun motif reads as the morning of the harvest season.

Updated 22 Jun 2026