Bridal palanquin art

Bridal palanquin art

Art by: Poonam Thakkar

If we had no words everything would have to be expressed in sounds, drawings, symbols and gestures… It would be a very different world let’s try to think of that and choose our tool to express our story without words.

I have chosen this story below to depict story on canvas for my Bridal palanquin art from the eminent Indian activist and poet Sarojini Naidu as follows:

Lightly, O lightly we bear her along,

She sways like a flower in the wind of our song;

She skims like a bird on the foam of a stream,

She floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream.

Gaily, O gaily we glide and we sing,

We bear her along like a pearl on a string.

Softly, O softly we bear her along,

She hangs like a star in the dew of our song;

She springs like a beam on the brow of the tide,

She falls like a tear from the eyes of a bride.

Lightly, O lightly we glide and we sing,

We bear her along like a pearl on a string.

– Sarojini Naidu

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