Honister Coal Seam Homes of Chirmi calm as a stretch of

calm as a stretch of bare sand at low tide

The swivel base turns with unhurried ease

cottages overlapping in colour and pitch with no consistent grid governing where one ends and the next begins

that moment holds flat: long

shaped with a gently undulating edge that refuses the expected straight line

Honister Coal Seam Homes of Chirmi calm as a stretch ofNight falls on a quarry face the way ink falls on paper, absolute, but never quite flat, catching whatever light still moves across it. Hand tufted by artisans in Jodhpur, its pile sits in a deep, almost black charcoal, fractured into broad facets the way slate splits along its grain, each seam picked out in a fine gilded line rather than left bare. The effect reads less like decoration than like ore exposed to light for the first time. Against a