![]() ![]() ![]() “For this year’s Deepavali celebrations, I will teach construction workers how to paint mud lamps called diyas, and to decorate the lamps with recycled CDs to give them a mirror-like finish,” she says. ![]() She will also be teaching migrant workers and domestic helpers the finer points of her unique style of rangoli. She is teaming up with the Little India Shopkeepers and Heritage Association for an upcoming Deepavali event where she will be creating a giant canvas mural rangoli which the public can help make. The artist – who holds the Guinness World Record for the largest rangoli, at 2,756 sq ft, in 2003 – has 48 records in various categories in the Singapore Book of Records, and has completed more than 20,000 rangoli globally. They have a 41-year-old daughter, a 35-year-old son and two grandchildren who are learning how to make rangoli. Mohan, 74, who is a co-director of Singa Rangoli, an arts company owned by the couple since 2015. She came to Singapore in 1992 and became a citizen in 2005. She started learning the art form from her mother – an acclaimed rangoli artist in Trichy, Tamil Nadu – at the age of five. Mohan, who is also an art therapist and educator of children with special needs, says that over the centuries, the coloured-rice designs inspired creations such as water rangoli, where flowers of different hues are placed in a deep dish filled with water to create a welcoming table or floor display. Geometric designs are used to ward off negative energies and attract good luck through the main door – the “mouth” – of the home. ![]()
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