Pandal – 25 – Warli Art Heaven

~ Anantharam Vanchiprakash

If you like Warli Art, this Pandal is for you. If you dont know about Warli Art, this Pandal will teach you and make you love it. If you dont like Warli Art, this Pandal might change your opinion about it.

I think the last three Pandal’s had something in common which resonated a lot with me. They had simple things put together to make something really beautiful. Not jazzy colors, not some crazy disco lighting etc. Simple and clean structures.

This Pandal was in Kashi Bose Lane and the theme was Aadim: Life in its Primal Rhythm. It was a fully open Pandal and it was fully of Warli Art. The highlight was the steel cut figures that were kept all around the main Durga Idol. The Durga was itself an Ek Chala structure (means the entire set of Durga, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Ganesh & Karthik are a part of single set rather than 5 different ones).

One thing that I saw repeating so many times in the Warli art is dance, art, music etc. Just enjoyment in general. After all what else is life in its primal rhythm? Its Ananda….

All the Warli art you will see below is laser cut steel sheets. After seeing this, I went an bought a Warli art T-shirt.

Entrance of the Pandal
A staircase/amphitheatre full of Warli Art
People dancing to drums below, pulling a cart above,
Cute looking sheep, People dancing and a dog tied to a fence.
Durga & Co. in one group. Ek Chala
Warli on the walls, on the stairs.. Zoom in to be amazed.
Pig with piglet? People dancing below
Such a cute looking rat with a stick..
Dog/Goat climbing on a lady with a child in her hands
House with stairs, a lady putting a baby to sleep on a hummock
Cart pulling, harmonium player and a lady shooing away a rat and a cute bird in the middle
Cute looking cat/dog
Dog tied to a fence
I want to think these are people making some wine.
People going on hunting. There is a hunter dog also along with them with a dead deer hung upside down.
Not just on steel, even on walls.
People dancing in circles
Llama??
Centipede or caterpillar… and ofcourse, people dancing.
People fishing, Fish net, water, fish. Love the way waves become fish. 🙂
Some bug? or the inspiration for an IC (integrated chip) ?
Too many things happening,. but clearly monkeys are climbing up some tent.
More on a single pane. Zoom and enjoy.
Honestly, beyond the first 4/5 rows, it was impossible to see what was beyond. I think that was also the intention of the artist.
People going on a train.

We spent over 45 mins in the Pandal. And we coul have spent another whole day and still will have something new to find. Just love the amount of effort the artist has put in to make something like this. Huge inspiration.

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