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A photograph of a concrete wall with a painted orange top border, decorated with colourful chalk or powder kolam-style art. Large white wavy line patterns interlace with leaf-like petals in orange, red, pink, green, blue, purple and yellow. On the right, stylised lotus and flower motifs with yellow centres and green leaves frame a central circular mandala with red spirals and a star pattern. The word DHAYA is written in white capital letters above the mandala. Bare feet are visible at the lower left edge, and a sand-coloured ground lies below the wall. No people are standing in the scene apart from the feet at the edge.

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A photograph of a large floor rangoli drawn in white chalk powder with pink, magenta, yellow, teal and green accents and red dots, arranged as a symmetrical lotus-petal mandala on a bare concrete ground. Behind it a low wall is painted in red and white vertical stripes, with draped cloths in green, purple and white placed on top and a fringed purple-and-gold cloth hanging at the right. A thin white-and-green floral garland border runs along the base of the wall. No people are visible.2010-12-22A photograph of a floor kolam, a ground-drawn rangoli, on a dark concrete floor in front of a wall painted with red and white vertical stripes. The kolam is a symmetrical white-line design with lotus blossoms in magenta and purple, yellow-orange petals, teal leaves, and red dots, centred on a purple lotus motif. A green and white cloth hangs along the top of the wall, and a small portion of a person in white clothing is visible at the upper right edge.2010-12-22A colourful floor rangoli on a grey concrete surface, made from powdered pigments in pink, yellow, red, deep purple and green outlined with white. It forms a symmetrical four-petal lotus-like design with leaf shapes radiating from a small white ring at the centre. No people are visible.2013-12-07October 09 20132013-10-09A photograph of a colourful floor rangoli drawn on bare brown earth in front of a grey stone platform edge at the top of the frame. The symmetrical kolam uses white rice-flour outlines filled with bright green, red, orange and magenta powder, with a central diamond of red and yellow dots, surrounding leaf-shaped petals, lotus-like motifs and pot or kalasha-shaped designs in the corners. No people are visible.A chalk rangoli drawn on a dark concrete floor, showing six stylised birds in orange, teal, blue, purple, green and red arranged in a ring around a blue flower at the centre. Each bird has white outlines and small white dotted accents on the bodies. No people are visible in the image.2008-01-01December 31 20062006-12-31December 31 20062006-12-31December 31 20062006-12-31A photograph of a chalk kolam drawn on bare grey ground. The design is a symmetrical floral motif with a central orange four-petalled flower with a small magenta centre, surrounded by a purple ring and green inner shapes. Blue and green arrow-like leaves and curling green, blue and purple tendrils extend outward, outlined in white chalk. At the top edge, the feet and lower clothing of a person in a white and striped sari-like garment are visible, and at the upper left a dark patterned garment and bare feet appear partly in frame. These partial figures are the only people visible.2006-12-31July 07 20142014-07-07 +1 copiesA close overhead view of colourful sand or powder rangoli being drawn on a brick-paved ground. A large multi-petalled flower design is filled with blue, green, yellow, magenta and red powder outlined in white. A person in a blue patterned skirt and black leggings kneels at right, drawing with a finger, with bangles on the wrist and sandals on the feet. Small cups of coloured powder sit nearby, and other pieces of rangoli, including a star motif, are partly visible at the edges. No a person candidate is visible.2012-07-15