Camel and the tent times elaborates on the artist’s celebrated, ongoing ‘lamp grid’ series. The paintings all feature diyas – lamps traditionally made from clay that are lit during rituals, prayers, ceremonies, celebrations and during power cuts – with flames and trails of smoke together creating patterns that guide the eye around each canvas: rising as a column (Workers having a break); ascending the legs of a table (Camel and the tent times); dancing shoal-like (Journey through water marks);  or delineating a series of fluid brush strokes (Harvest as a water mark).