Tapestry of Light
Digital Pointillist Abstractions from the P.C. Lunia Art Collection
By
Anou Lunia Singhvi
Ninth-Generation Steward Visual and Performing Artist
About Artist
Anou stands at the intersection of sacred art, capital, and governance. A visual and performing artist, poet, composer, singer, cultural entrepreneur, and independent scholar, she represents a three-hundred-year lineage of weaving precious gemstones onto silk textiles, a technique that exists nowhere else on earth. Born in New York and formally trained at Parsons School of Design, she brings a rare dual fluency of three decades of apprenticeship under master jeweler and craftsman P.C. Lunia, known internationally as “The Fabergé of the East,” combined with contemporary design education from Parsons. The Artist Her family was invited by Maharaja Jai Singh II to establish jewel art workshops during the founding of Jaipur, and for three centuries, the P.C. Lunia atelier has created sacred art across Hindu, Jain, and Islamic traditions. A published writer whose work has appeared in The Times of India, The Economic Times, and Gems and Jewellery Magazine, Anou presented “Lost and Looted: The Fate of Bejeweled Textiles and Gemstone Carpets” at the Textile Society of America's 18th Biennial Symposium. In January 2026, she presented her creative diplomacy framework at the World Economic Forum in Davos, opening the WIN Lounge's Creative Capital panel. She hosts The Invisible Thread: Soft Power in a Hard World, a podcast exploring how creativity and storytelling can build what politics alone cannot. She serves as Partner at Angel Physicians Fund, overseeing business development and partnerships, as an Independent Director at Praxis Home Retail, and as the founder of the Srishti Art and Craft Society NGO. Named among the “Top 10 Women Independent Directors 2025” by Women Entrepreneurs Review, she curated the landmark 2019 exhibition at Jawahar Kala Kendra called “I Shine with Love and Light”, a multidisciplinary expression of her philosophy that art, in all its forms, is an act of luminous presence.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“Profundity was never in the stones. It was in the attention.”
— Anou Lunia Singhvi
The Tapestry of Light series is my conversation with three centuries of ancestors — a dialogue across time with hands I never held but whose devotion I carry in my bones. When I look at the P.C. Lunia tapestries through the lens of an artist of today, and transform them through digital pointillist abstraction, I am not reproducing the masterworks. I am listening to them. I am pressing my ear against silk that is older than nations and asking it to speak again. Each pixel carries the memory of a gemstone — ruby, emerald, sapphire, diamond — placed by hand and woven into silk by artisans whose names the world has forgotten but whose devotion survives in every thread. These were not decorators. They were devotees. They poured prayer into technique, faith into precision, and what they left behind is not merely beautiful — it is
alive with intention. These abstractions ask a question that haunts me, that wakes me, that follows me from Jaipur to New York to Davos: Can sacred art survive modernity? Can ancient tradition pass through a digital lens and emerge intact? Can reverence be translated without being diminished? I believe it can. Because profundity was never in the stones. It was in the attention. It was in the trembling hand that placed a single ruby among thousands, knowing the universe was watching. And if that attention can move from gemstone to pixel, from silk to canvas, from atelier to gallery wall, then perhaps sacred art does not die in the modern world. Perhaps it has simply been waiting for a new language to speak through. That is what I offer — not preservation, but resurrection. Not nostalgia, but continuity. A luminous thread connecting what was sacred then to what must remain sacred now.
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THE TAPESTRY OF LIGHT COLLECTION
The Tapestry of Light is a collection of seven unique works born from the digital pointillist abstraction of the original P.C. Lunia sacred jeweled tapestries. Every pixel holds the memory of a gemstone placed by hand — ruby, emerald, sapphire, diamond — woven into silk by artisans across three centuries of devotional practice. The series transforms tens of thousands of carats of precious gemstones into luminous fields of color and light, refracting one of the world’s most extraordinary living traditions of sacred craft into a contemporary visual language. The series traces its provenance to the jeweled kite panel installations exhibited at Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, on the winter solstice, December 16, 2019, as part of I Shine With Love and Light — a landmark multidisciplinary collaboration between Anou, an artist from New York, and Jhankriti, a Kathak dancer from Jaipur. The evening unfolded as a tapestry of its own: jeweled kite installations shimmering beneath stage light, bronze self-portrait sculptures standing sentinel, a dance drama tracing the love story of a kite and her f lyer, and poetry spoken in Hindi and English, two languages braided together like thread and gemstone. Created by Anou Lunia Singhvi, the ninth-generation steward of the P.C. Lunia Art Collection , these abstractions ask a question that haunts the artist: can sacred art survive translation? Can the devotional energy of a 55,000-carat tapestry pass through a digital lens and emerge intact? The Tapestry of Light answers in the affirmative because the sacred was never in the stones. It was in the attention.
The Guardian Within
The most intimate work in the series. The artist's own image is embedded within the kaleidoscopic dissolution of the ancestral tapestry, erasing the boundary between maker and made, between heritage and inheritor. As ninth-generation guardian of a Jain family tradition of sacred art spanning Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, and Christian devotional worlds, Singhvi becomes a living thread within the work itself—a self-portrait without a face, identity refracted through three centuries of sacred devotion, lineage, and craft. The tapestry does not portray her; it weaves her into its sacred history.
The Living Veil
The most intimate work in the series. Warm golden tones recall the original tapestry's silk ground, while the pointillist treatment transforms familiar motifs into something trembling and new, a veil between the viewer and three centuries of craftsmanship. To look through it is to glimpse into the artisan's breath held steady, the gemstone finding its place in the weave, the thread accepting the weight of the stone as an act of love. This is not a canvas. It is a window left open between generations, through which light still passes, warm and unhurried.
The Invisible Cross
Within the shimmering field of gemstone-derived pixels, a cruciform structure emerges: not imposed, but discovered, as though the sacred geometry of the tapestry held a hidden architecture waiting to be revealed through digital translation. The cross motif speaks to the very heart of the Lunia tradition: a Hindu-Jain family creating masterworks for Islam's holiest site, and here, a symbol of Christianity surfacing unbidden from the luminous weave. This is what creative diplomacy looks like when the art itself becomes the diplomat crossing borders of faith without permission, without apology, with nothing but light.
The Covenant
Two fields of sacred light, divided and indivisible. Ruby and sapphire, the oldest symbols of fire and heaven face each other across a threshold of darkness. The left panel burns with the dense crimson of passion: thousands of gemstone facets caught mid-blaze, an offering of heat and urgency. The right answers in sapphire stillness: cooler, deeper, infinite in its patience. Together they enact the central a truth. of the Lunia tradition: that the sacred belongs to all. This is the most boldly composed work in the Tapestry of Light series, a departure from the singular jewel-field compositions into explicit dialogue. The vertical seam is not a division but a meeting place, recalling the moment where two hands of prayer touch.
Nocturne in Sapphire
Cool, contemplative, and deeply atmospheric. The sapphire palette transforms the original tapestry's warm fiery energy into something more mysterious, a nocturnal meditation on the relationship between precious stones and starlight, between what the hand creates in daylight and what the soul reveals after dark. This is the painting you live with longest. It changes with the hour, deepens with the season, and rewards the patient gaze the way a night sky rewards those who remain still long enough to see the stars move. It is three hundred years of craft, whispering.
Sacred Fire
Fire and darkness. This is the most dramatic work in the series, deep reds and blacks that evoke both the rubies of the original tapestry and the intensity of practice at its most consuming. Against a dimly lit atmosphere this piece will command the room the way a flame commands a temple, not by demanding attention but by being the only source of warmth in a cool, dark space. It is the painting that asks the question Anou herself asks: what survives the fire? The answer, always, is transformation.