WEAVING WORLDS

      My cut– out paintings are an attempt to move away from the conventional ‘‘window frame”
reference and see the paintings as an organic entity. This shapes eventually become almost
sculptural and free standing forms. I imagine that this approach initiates a constant dialogue
between what lie’s within and without, like composite images seen in the traditional Indian
paintings. The use of cut outs creates a play between the inner and outer realm as well between
form and shadow.
Jostling the images which are within the shapes find a new narrative, absorbing patterns, colours
and abstraction.
Maneesha Doshi

The cut–outs explore the opposites– of literally breaking the form by shadows or holes but this
seeming ‘iconoclasm’ seldom loses the site of lyricism, which here takes the shape of
the ornamental, the use of patterns, repetitions and a deliberate play with the edge of the cut–
outs.
Parul Dave Mukherjee