During my recent trip to India, I visited a famous Gujarati Thali restaurant in Lonavala, called Chandralok. Any gujarati who's ever visited Lonavala, the small hill station near Mumbai knows that it's worth waiting for hours on a Sunday afternoon for a table in this place. So while we were waiting in the heavily ornamented lobby, I started clicking pictures of the modified Mandana work on the walls. Mandana is the traditional work done on the walls of mud huts in Gujarat (the state of India where my ancestors come from). It usually involves a lot of geometrical patterns and mirrors. I was really inspired by these and wanted to work with the form, but also wanted to make it portable art. So, I bought a ton of accessories from India and started making collages and greeting cards. Here's a birthday card I made for L. The basic shape was traced from my favorite book called "Embroidery Designs" by Nirmala C. Mistry, Navneet Publications. The design uses cloth laces, kundan stones and mirrors on creative cards paper.
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