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"I have been engaged with ‘making works’ which consist of many single units arranging themselves into one work. It feels nice to work in a small, intimate format – to make my whole world piece by piece in a size that I can hold in my two hands. One piece leads to another growing into a ‘series’, yet ‘holding on’ to the simple beginnings of that process. With each unit’s variations newer possibilities of the idea or thought are... "I have been engaged with ‘making works’ which consist of many single units arranging themselves into one work. It feels nice to work in a small, intimate format – to make my whole world piece by piece in a size that I can hold in my two hands. One piece leads to another growing into a ‘series’, yet ‘holding on’ to the simple beginnings of that process. With each unit’s variations newer possibilities of the idea or thought are explored…sometimes very specifically and at other times with indirect associations through abstract patterns and shapes….These units keep multiplying until they acquire a shape – a rectangle…or a strip on the wall…presenting the process of the work, telling the story of the journey that the work took" (Manish Parekh, Nature Morte exhibition catalogue, 2000, unpaginated).

The present lot, a series of fourteen ‘units’ or variations in form and colour, is titled Asleep, perhaps describing the artist’s minimalist rendering of a sleeping body under a thick, warm quilt. Though they may be inspired by a particular form or memory, this series of works communicates to the viewer on several levels. "In the highly elegant execution that she accords to each work, there is a quirky, playful implication not only of forms but their rhythms. Objects defy stasis, in the same way they defy gravity, and their emotional evocations remain fluid…Outside narratives, outside recognizable contexts, the artist accords a lasting beauty to the singular gesture" (Gayatri Sinha, Memory Membrane, Sakshi Gallery exhibition catalogue, 2006, p.5).

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