The brief was the most self-aware idea in the collection: paint the painter. The Gor — the Lakhara priest-painter — stands at the centre drawing horse outlines in plain vermilion line, and those horses are deliberately left unfinished, only their contour laid down, so the viewer catches a Pithora in the very act of being made. A central layout put the painter and his half-drawn horses dead-centre, with an assistant kneeling beside him grinding and mixing pigment in open bowls, the colours of the whole wall sitting ready at his feet. Only the Gor may execute the sacred wall, working to the badva's chants, so giving him this central, active role is true to the tradition's hierarchy. The tractor and bus in the lower band keep the scene in the living present rather than freezing it as a museum tableau.