Warli Folk Fusion Style Prints

Warli Folk Fusion — 100 museum-grade prints in this style. 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 remote work, not ritual dance. Harvest gathering scenes anchor Warli farming narratives — women carriers with head-loads, granary storage, bullock transport document monsoon-to-storage cycle central to Sahyadri Adivasi life. Linked-hand procession lines express communal labour distinct from tarpa circle dance at harvest-eve celebration. Warli painting comes from Warli Adivasi communities of the North Sahyadri — white rice paste on geru walls narrating village life. Mumbai suburban locals — Western and Central line EMUs — are cultural infrastructure connecting Konkan and inland villages to the city; millions commute with the open-door lean that fusion renders as stick figures at carriage thresholds.

Updated 14 Jun 2026