Composition Notes
Every motif is combed into damp plaster before sunrise, then left to cure in the heat. A single panel takes nine mornings of waiting.
A discipline of restraint: red earth set against the yellow-brown wall, with no third hue permitted to dilute the contrast.
Patterns mirror across one axis and repeat in strict alternating rows, so each motif echoes its neighbour without exception.
Women comb and scratch every line by hand, signing the homestead in a pattern no two families repeat.