Group Crit

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Mary Mary Quite Contrary

My reflections on these works


These are open ended stories.The titles are nursery rhymes. Poetry and Dreams.

Challenged scale .These works are big as compared to small works I usually make.

The theme is my whimsical interpretation of what is happening inside us unknown to the outside world.

Framed in white box frames. Has a white background.The shadow falls at the back mount board.

Suggestion of metamorphosis.Arm replaced by octopus tentacles.Bones changing into things.

Possibilities of using papercuts in another way like curtains , chandelier, enclosed space , dress, blanket, piece of furniture, .

The works can be made more edgy, more illogical, more complex

Possibility for projections, shadow play, moving image, animation

Sculptural possibility by folding the,rolling or stitching parts together.

Peer Review

Jennifer  found the works beautiful.Liked my portrait with my papercut and thought it has many possibilities.
She suggested I might wish to make a felt/boiled wool blanket and cut it out.


Mark thought the projections, film idea was a viable one and one could spend a long time working on it an entire show could perhaps be built around it.


Iain liked thought my work was effective story telling it has many symbols and the imagery was complex


Rosi wished to know why I choose colour over monochrome.Was it a cultural thing?It was cultural because in India colours are used to express emotions and white is considered a depressing colour.


Les thought suspending the works in space would be interesting and  could experiment with moving the parts by researching shadow puppetry and adopting it in my work in a way that air or strings could move the parts which would make them playful.