Hand-Painted Wooden Wall Frame – Annapoorneshwari Green Madurai goddess What inspired this piece

What inspired this piece

This key holder brings a small piece of that living devotional practice into an everyday object

It refers to a hand-painted technique that recreates the raised gold-relief look of traditional Tanjore painting without using real gold leaf

the hour Andhra's puppeteers staged their shadow plays by lamplight

Hand-Painted Wooden Wall Frame – Annapoorneshwari Green Madurai goddess What inspired this pieceAnnapoorneshwari, a manifestation of Goddess Parvathi worshipped as the Hindu goddess of food and nourishment, is shown here seated on a deep green, temple arch shaped plaque, holding a ladle and bowl of grain in her hands. Below her, the Annapoorna Sadapoorna shloka is inscribed in gold Devanagari script, invoking her blessing directly rather than leaving her identity to the image alone. The figure itself is a raised, hand painted cut out set against