01 · warli wall language · slide 03
Tarpa House presentation deck

The wall teaches movement with almost nothing

Warli turns ceremony, labor, and rhythm into a spare grammar of circles, triangles, and stick limbs.

Two triangles carry the whole village

The body reduces to one clear rule, so every figure stays legible even when the procession grows dense.

The wall stays alive without a horizon

Figures float in sequence instead of standing on ground, which keeps the dance reading as motion, not scene.

Lagna-chauk turns ritual into a map

The wedding square divides the story into zones for guests, offerings, and the order of the ceremony.

Tarpa circles turn repetition into rhythm

Dancers orbit the flute player, and the spacing itself becomes the pulse the eye follows.