Caring Wall Art

Caring — 2 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Mata ni Pachedi means 'the cloth of the Mother Goddess' — a ritual shrine textile of the Vaghri / Devipujak ('worshippers of the Goddess') community of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, who, barred from temples, painted the Goddess on cloth to make their own portable shrine. The tradition rings the Mother with the labour that sustains a household. Pithora is the ritual wall-painting tradition of the Rathwa, Bhil and Bhilala Adivasi communities of Chhota Udepur in eastern Gujarat and the adjoining belt of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The communal cooking pot is an old village sight, and the school midday meal, the tractor and the bus are the everyday life of the same villages today; contemporary Pithora artists fold such modern scenes into the wall's flat folk line.

Updated 22 Jun 2026