Rhythmic Festive Wall Art

Rhythmic Festive — 2 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Chenda melam is the percussion ensemble at the heart of Kerala's temple festivals — most famously the Thrissur Pooram — built on the chenda, a cylindrical drum played upright with sticks, supported by the elathalam cymbals and the curved kombu and kuzhal wind instruments. Here it is set inside bhitti chitra, Kerala's temple-mural tradition that flourished roughly from the 16th to 19th century and is still painted today: flat panchavarna pigments (red, yellow, green, black, white over an ochre ground), a bold lamp-black outline and the school's elongated lotus-shaped eyes. Mata ni Pachedi means 'the cloth of the Mother Goddess' — a shrine textile of the Vaghri / Devipujak community of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, who, historically barred from temples, painted the Goddess on cloth to create their own portable shrine. Dhol drummers and shehnai players accompany the goddess in procession and worship, their rhythm believed to summon and honour her.

Updated 22 Jun 2026