Lounge Wall Art

Lounge — 3 museum-grade prints sized and toned for the room. Pattachitra is the cloth-painting tradition of Odisha, tied to the Jagannath temple at Puri and the chitrakar families of Raghurajpur, painted on patta (cotton treated with tamarind-seed paste and chalk) in five mineral colours — conch-white, lamp-black, haritala yellow, hingula red and geru brick-orange. Jatra is Odisha's travelling open-air folk theatre, performed through the night on village stages with live harmonium and drum, drawing whole communities; it remains a living popular form across the eastern states. Marwar, the desert court of Jodhpur, is the Rajput school of intense saturated grounds and desert intensity. This contemporary fusion borrows its solo-performer grammar for the Kalbeliya dance of the Kalbeliya community — once snake-handlers — whose serpentine movements and black mirror-worked skirts were inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2010, danced to the been and the dholak. Marwar, the desert court of Jodhpur and Jaisalmer, is the Rajput school of intense saturated grounds and desert intensity. This contemporary fusion borrows its night-gathering grammar for the hereditary folk music of the Thar — the Manganiyar and Langa communities whose kamaicha, dholak and khartal carry Rajasthan's desert songs.

Updated 22 Jun 2026