2024
Prayer Wheels
The story of Goddess Annapurna retold across four wheels, wood, image and prayer, all with a scene - turning by hand, each turn - a step forward.
2023
Prayer Wheels
Prayer Wheels
The story of Goddess Annapurna retold across four wheels, wood, image and prayer, all with a scene - turning by hand, each turn - a step forward.
The story of Goddess Annapurna retold across four wheels, wood, image and prayer, all with a scene - turning by hand, each turn - a step forward.
2024
Prayer Wheels
The story of Goddess Annapurna retold across four wheels, wood, image and prayer, all with a scene - turning by hand, each turn - a step forward.
2023
Prayer Wheels
The story of Goddess Annapurna retold across four wheels, wood, image and prayer, all with a scene - turning by hand, each turn - a step forward.
Legends are often bound in pages.
Written or drawn,
Prayers often live in temples
Within chants or sung.
I am devotion, carved in wood,
Image by image, figure by figure,
To be turned by any hand
That touched me with faith.
Legends are often bound in pages.
Written or drawn,
Prayers often live in temples
Within chants or sung.
I am devotion, carved in wood,
Image by image, figure by figure,
To be turned by any hand
That touched me with faith.
Legends are often bound in pages.
Written or drawn,
Prayers often live in temples
Within chants or sung.
I am devotion, carved in wood,
Image by image, figure by figure,
To be turned by any hand
That touched me with faith.
Four wheels, each with eight scenes. Not in shlokas, not in words - 32 narrative panels, carved with images of figurines.
The divine epic of Annapurna, and how the goddess bestowed upon mankind, the gift of food and lifted a curse, the relief carving of an epic, designed to live inside a wall.
The divine epic of Annapurna, and how the goddess bestowed upon mankind, the gift of food and lifted a curse, the relief carving of an epic, designed to live inside a wall.
The assembly for this project was as unique as its concept. From the character design to the structure of the wheels - this was our first devotional piece.
But there was another layer - the structure was designed to be inserted into the wall cavity of the client’s home. All our structures till now had been assembled in open spaces. There was no scope of making any tweaks or adjustments, it had to fit perfectly within.
- Swapnil
The assembly for this project was as unique as its concept. From the character design to the structure of the wheels - this was our first devotional piece.
But there was another layer - the structure was designed to be inserted into the wall cavity of the client’s home. All our structures till now had been assembled in open spaces. There was no scope of making any tweaks or adjustments, it had to fit perfectly within.
- Swapnil
The assembly for this project was as unique as its concept. From the character design to the structure of the wheels - this was our first devotional piece.
But there was another layer - the structure was designed to be inserted into the wall cavity of the client’s home. All our structures till now had been assembled in open spaces. There was no scope of making any tweaks or adjustments, it had to fit perfectly within.
- Swapnil
Relief carvings of legends & figurines,
Moving sequentially in turning wheels -
I am a hybrid of scripture and storytelling,
Born of imagery, living in a sacred form.
Lord Shiva & Goddess Parvati - hand-drawn before carving in wood, wheels structured to temple architecture. Panels marked in sequence across rotations, designed to live a home wall.
Lord Shiva & Goddess Parvati - hand-drawn before carving in wood, wheels structured to temple architecture.
Panels marked in sequence across rotations, designed to live a home wall.
Lord Shiva & Goddess Parvati - hand-drawn before carving in wood, wheels structured to temple architecture.
Panels marked in sequence across rotations, designed to live a home wall.
Relief carvings of legends & figurines,
Moving sequentially in turning wheels -
I am a hybrid of scripture and storytelling,
Born of imagery, living in a sacred form.
Relief carvings of legends & figurines,
Moving sequentially in turning wheels -
I am a hybrid of scripture and storytelling,
Born of imagery, living in a sacred form.
