Chettinad · 1900 — 1950 · Hand-cast Cement
செம்மண்ணும் கண்ணாடியும் — மண்ணில் வளர்ந்த தளம்.
The ground
beneath the mansion.
How a village of seventy artisans poured oxide pigment onto plate glass and built the floors of the Nattukottai merchant houses — one tile at a time, never fired, never glazed.
A talk in three rooms: pigment, pattern, patron.
Plate № 014 8" chokkattan, oxblood field