This painting is from my series "Wonder Road." I returned from my 2004 trip to Rajasthan (a sketching workshop I taught there organized by my friends the Dehejias) intoxicated by what I'd seen and experienced, and over the next year produced these twenty-four street scenes. I wanted them to be like glimpses caught from the window of a hurtling bus (the odd and beautiful tableaus that kept my pen moving from one end of Rajasthan to the other.) To see the "Wonder Road" series and my sketch journals, click here.