September 2010, thick Argali paper basket (inside is a paper flower made of thinner Argali paper)
| Around September 2010 I was making quite a lot of paper flowers using Argali paper for an exhibition in Singapore. The paper is fibrous and very strong so you can manipulate it as if you were using fabric. It is so strong you could not tear it with your hands but with a knife, you could cut it like butter. The paper was simply a joy to work with. For the current piece, I felt I wanted to create a three dimensional basket instead of the two dimensional one I had sent to Orah. In place of the flower that was inside the flat basket, I created an image of what resembled constellations, drawn in black ink. When assembled together, It looked as if the basket had somehow caught the falling stars. I am glad I brought the Argali paper back with me from Singapore. | 
'Captured Constellation', thin Argali paper, handmade Indian paper, glassine paper, ink, pen, cotton thread, 25 March 2014
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