Nilima Kolli

Shinrin-yoku (“Forest bathing”)

hand-cut paper

8″ x 12″

2024

Not For Sale

This work pays homage to the Japanese concept of Shinrin-yoku or forest bathing, which involves mindful immersion of oneself in nature.

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Nilima Kolli

Tenacity

hand-cut paper

11″ x 14″

2024

Not For Sale

Summitting is the most demanding yet extremely rewarding. This hand-cut paper of my hike up one of the presidential mountains in NH reflects my feelings of exhaustion, exhilaration and finally humility.

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Nilima Kolli

Driftwood

Selected by FAM curators

Inspired by: Shelley Reed, Predator/Prey (after Oudry) Joyce Tenneson, Fork Shaped Tree

hand-cut paper

11″ x 14″

2024

$450 (sold)

This is a hand-cut paper of a sandhill crane on driftwood. Patterns are everywhere in nature, sometimes very conspicuous and at other times not, and I use positive and negative space compositions to portray these intriguing patterns on display in nature. As with the silhouette of the branches in Fork Shaped Tree by Joyce Tenneson, driftwood encourages one to contemplate on patterns in the striations carved out by water currents in the driftwood. Fascinatingly, the grayscale silhouette of the crane presents a calmer composure, in contrast to the effects brought out by the use of grayscale in Shelly Reed’s Predator/Prey.

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