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Insights

Notes from the field.

Market reports, collector guides, conservation notes, essays, and historical perspectives, written slowly.

A person arranges offerings on a colorful woven cloth

Conservation

Cloth as temple

How Mata ni Pachedi turned exclusion into a shrine.

Three colorful wooden deities of Jagannath, Balabhadra, and Subhadra before a temple backdrop

Historical perspectives

Reading the Kavad

The teller, the patron, and a folding pilgrimage.

An ornate building illuminated with warm lights at night

Essays

Night with Pabuji

What a phad performance still asks of a village.

a person using a machine to cut a piece of paper

Collector guides

Sanjhi at dusk

Why an artwork that vanishes still matters.