Warm Communal Wall Art

Warm Communal — 3 museum-grade prints that set the mood. The Onam sadya is the great vegetarian feast of Kerala's harvest festival, served on a fresh banana leaf and eaten by hand — rice with a long sequence of curries, pickles, pappadam and the sweet payasam, each in its proper place on the leaf. The picture is built in the idiom of bhitti chitra, Kerala's temple-mural tradition, which uses the panchavarna five-colour system — red, yellow, green, black and white over an ochre ground — in flat opaque fields bounded by a bold lamp-black outline, with the school's signature elongated lotus-shaped eyes. Saura (also Sora or Saora) is one of the oldest Adivasi communities of southern Odisha; the Lanjia Saura sub-group of the Rayagada and Gajapati hills are known for their ritual wall paintings, called ikon or idital, painted by a kuranmaran (shaman-priest) in white rice paste on the deep-maroon inner wall of a house to honour deities and ancestors. Sacred groves — stands of sal and other trees kept for the village deity, where offerings are made — are a living Adivasi practice across the region.

Updated 22 Jun 2026