Because clothing, food, and shelter are basic human needs, they provide excellent entries to cultural values and individual aesthetics. Everyone gets dressed every day, but body art has not received the attention it deserves as the most common and universal of material expressions of culture. The Grace of Four Moons aims to document the clothing decisions made by ordinary people in their everyday lives. Based on fieldwork conducted primarily in the city of Banaras, India, Pravina Shukla conceptualizes and realizes a total model for the study of body art—understood as all aesthetic modifications and supplementations to the body. Shukla urges the study of the entire process of body art, from the assembly of raw materials and the manufacture of objects, through their sale and the interactions between merchants and consumers, to the consumer's use of objects in creating personal decoration.

因为衣服、食物和住所是人类的基本需求，它们为文化价值和个人审美提供了很好的入口。每个人每天都要穿衣服，但人体艺术作为文化的最常见和最普遍的物质表达方式，却没有得到应有的关注。四个月亮的优雅》旨在记录普通人在日常生活中做出的服装决定。基于主要在印度Banaras市进行的实地考察，Pravina Shukla构思并实现了人体艺术研究的整体模式--被理解为对身体的所有审美修饰和补充。Shukla敦促研究人体艺术的整个过程，从原材料的组装和物品的制造，到它们的销售和商人与消费者之间的互动，再到消费者使用物品创造个人装饰。