Hostel Common Area Wall Art

Hostel Common Area — 2 museum-grade prints sized and toned for the room. Warli painting belongs to the Warli Adivasi community of the North Sahyadri range in Maharashtra — Dahanu, Talasari, Jawhar, Palghar, and Mokhada among its heartland centres — traditionally painted by women in white rice-flour paste on red ochre cow-dung or mud-plastered hut walls during weddings, harvests, and communal rituals. Geometric circles, triangles, and squares depict daily life without perspective: circle heads and wheels, triangle torsos, square chauk fields for sacred wedding geometry. Warli painting is a tribal mural tradition of the Warli (Varli) Adivasi community in the North Sahyadri Range of Maharashtra and adjoining Gujarat — villages in Palghar, Jawhar, Dahanu, Talasari, and Mokhada where rice-paste white pigment on red ochre cow-dung or geru-coated walls recorded harvests, hunts, weddings, and daily labour. Women historically painted lagnacha chauk and dev chauk ritual squares for nuptial and festival occasions; tarpa circle dance appears in harvest-eve scenes with musicians at the centre — motifs this fusion piece deliberately omits because the subject is urban logistics, not ritual dance.

Updated 14 Jun 2026