Sankrant Festival Paper Cheriyal Traditional Art

This narrative painting unfolds like a ceremonial tapestry, partitioning time into panels where domestic ritual, music, and procession converge around the emblematic white horse at the center—an axis of vitality and status. The saturated vermilion ground collapses depth into a theatrical stage, allowing ornament, gesture, and pattern to carry the emotional cadence: offering hands, tilted heads, and rhythmic instruments suggest a community bound by duty and celebration alike. Intricate borders and repeated motifs act as a visual mantra, framing the scenes as both lived memory and archetype, where everyday labor is elevated into mythic continuity. Beneath its festive surface, the work proposes social harmony as a carefully choreographed performance—sustained by exchange, devotion, and the quiet discipline of tradition.