A knot drawn from memory
Artists internalize grids from 5×5 to 21×21, tracing each path without sketch or guide.
One path, never crossing
The kolam line loops around every pulli dot exactly once and returns to where it began.
Rice flour as offering
By noon the ants carry away every trace — the art is complete only in its disappearance.
Three millennia of thresholds
Mothers teach daughters this geometry at dawn, household by household, without interruption.