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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