Bengal Hand-Painted Aranmula Wooden Frame – Goddess Durga Maroon Telangana wall art Why are the discs irregularly

Why are the discs irregularly shaped

Dimensions: Total Length : 5 cm hand-painted portion: Max Width 3

and nods to Kerala's Oachira Cattle Festival tradition of parading decorated cattle

a motif that appears across nearly every Indian folk art form but reads distinctly different in Tholu Bommalata's bold

remains one of the most celebrated

Bengal Hand-Painted Aranmula Wooden Frame – Goddess Durga Maroon Telangana wall art Why are the discs irregularlyEvery Durga Puja in Bengal builds toward a single moment: chokkhu daan, the ritual "donation of sight," when an artisan paints in the goddess's eyes and she is believed to come alive. This single Aranmula shaped frame carries that same painted face wide, expressive eyes, a third eye at the centre of the forehead, and an elaborate crown in red, orange, and white set against a warm maroon brown ground. Cast in an antique gold finish, the frame borrows