Kali काली | The Mosaic of Mother and Lord | Museum Poster

काली | This is the great story told in mosaic, the storyteller says — Kali standing on Shiva, the wife stepping on the husband. The old gold tiles say what words cannot: that he laid down for her, that she found him, that the dance ended in recognition. The little severed head in her hand is the head of pride. The garland is made of skulls because she has held us all and remembered every one. The mosaic is the slow patience of a love that even time cannot shake.