"Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it" -Louis-Ferdinand Celine
"I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody sitting in a room by a lamp is being lit by that lamp" -Roger Deakin
When i was a child my mother used to draw kolam everyday in front of the house. She used to collect pages of magazine which had inspirational designs. And also has a notebook with kolam drawn with pencil or pen. These were usually scribbles or trials of the kolam or rangoli design. She also tried new innovative designs. With random number of dots on the page she designed creative motifs.
This is one such design, it has both flower and deepam or lamp. The center of the design is a six petaled flower. Six lamps or deepam, placed side wise, around the flower. The flame on the deepam is in the shape of the petal of flower.
There is a symmetry in the design. This design can be colored to enhance the design. The overall shape of the design is hexagonal. It can be used as sides of kolam or rangoli. It can be drawn with or without the guidance of the dots. It comes in the category of deepam kolam, dots kolam, flower kolam and pulli kolam.
