In this painting by Suchitra Mattai, a pair of lotus bowls send sacred smoke to the heavens. The bowls rise like smoke stacks from blue walled containers. The blue walls dissolve into calligraphic text as they overlap with a page taken from  The Grammar of Ornament, a 19th century colonial design book by British architect Owen Jones. The book used ancient design principles from Asian, African, Islamic, and Southern European cultures as the basis for creating what Jones called a distinctly “modern” and “British” aesthetic. Mattai’s lotus bowls and calligraphy, as well as the organic plant forms at the base of the containers, serve as a reminder of the cultural theft perpetrated by colonial power brokers—the legacy of which is expressed succinctly by the title of this piece.