Lippan Wall

In the white desert of Kutch, Gujarat, women of the tribal community sit with earth, camel dung, and shards of abhla (tiny mirrors), turning these fragments into light. They knead the mud, press it into flowing patterns on the walls of their homes, and carefully set each mirror into place.

What was once just fragments now looks like a galaxy of reflections. The humble materials of mirrors and earth are turned into shimmering works of art. The sun glints on it by day, the moon makes it glow by night. Even the flame of a small diya dances in its mirrors.

Lippan Kaam is not just an art form; it is philosophy made visible. It reminds us that beauty does not come from perfection, but from assembling the fragments of life into patterns of meaning.

At Kashkan, this wall carries that truth. It is an ode to women and their resilience, to tradition and culture, to the idea that wholeness is not the absence of brokenness, but the art of weaving it into light.