In the white salt desert of Kutch, in Gujarat, the women of the villages have decorated their round mud homes, the bhungas, for centuries. The craft is called Lippan: a relief of clay and camel dung, studded with tiny mirrors that catch the desert light.
It is slow, meditative work. The clay is mixed and pressed by hand into swirling patterns of peacocks, trees and geometry. Each mirror is set individually, angled to throw light differently as the sun moves across the sky. What began as a way to brighten a dark home became one of India's most distinctive folk arts.
Hang a piece of Lippan where the afternoon sun can reach it, and you understand instantly why the women of Kutch have never stopped making it.