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🌸🌺 The Art of the Altar 💐🌼

i started documenting altars & shrines on my different visits to nainativu, jaffna, and the other theevus including the makeshift altars on boats (which i’ll share another day). mainly curious about what/who folks like to keep on their altars but also for my own color studies and inspo! 💜💛🧡🩷

1. Lilith altar shrine complete with gorgeous, fresh flower garlands, thanks to @taragermani / @nangiville 💐🧚🏽
2. our at-home altar in queens, complete with fake tropical palms, fresh marigolds from the garden, candles, & a holographic dying jesus overlooking two clowns🌴🌼
3. a small corner of our at-home altar in nainativu as of 2023, with nagapooshani amman & st. anthony 🐍
4. when i visited nainativu for first time in 2011, this was what was left of the swami room after being abandoned for 27 years—a beautiful handpainted lakshmi on glass & a sacred heart jesus 🪷🫀
5. up close w/ the gang 🐚🪸
6. a sun-bleached, sea foam shrine with fresh jasmine offerings 🧼🧼
7. 🐍🌸🐍 for the all the blessings & rituals
8. my aunty’s swami room from my visit in 2017 with fresh hibiscus offerings from her garden 🌺🌺🌺
9. mobile altar with fresh roses🌹 love that my friends now pick flowers for ganesh before getting in the car 🐘💐
10. painted in shades of marian blue 💙🌊🩵 in paruthitivu | பருத்தித்தீவு 🤲🏾⛪️