Kavad Art Ever seen this before?! Here is the artist with the panels of this beautiful masterpiece open! Any idea what this is? At first glance, it just looks like a series of pictures. What does it represent? A STORY!! Who does not like stories?! Kavad Art is a unique tradition of crafting stories on a wooden box from the state of Rajasthan. The 'Kavad' is a portable wooden shrine which contains visual narratives of Gods, Saints, local heroes etc on its panels. It is created by combining the expertise and efforts of a carpenter (called a Sutar), an artist (called a Chitrakaar) and a story teller (called a Bhat). The Kavadia Bhats travel around and narrate the story depicted in the box. These boxes are made only in a village called Bassi, in Rajasthan. This art form dates back 400 years. The Sutar community started making these wooden boxes from Mango and Selam trees using simple tools. Once the boxes were made, the Chitrakaar hand painted the...