One joined sculpture
- Visible form
- Four joined lobes
- Catalogue identity
- One object
- Title forms
- Phool; Phool (Flower)
The shorter former-gallery title and translated catalogue title refer to the same exact photographed object.
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Sculpture · 1989
Phool (Flower)
Four rounded red forms meet at the centre of a single cast-paper sculpture, giving the work the compressed symmetry of a flower.
Date1989
MediumCast paper with terra-rosa pigment and surface sizing with the same pigment
Dimensions22½ × 18½ × 3¾ in.
Four joined lobes meet at the centre of the cast-paper form. Their compressed symmetry turns the familiar outline of a flower into something bodily and architectural, held between opening and enclosure.
Terra-rosa pigment is embedded in the cast paper and carried across its surface. The muted red gives the sculpture the density of earth while light catches the raised edges and deepens the central seam.
An Akara exhibition essay places Zarina’s flower imagery among the monochromatic cast-paper works of the 1980s and connects it with the memory of a garden’s fragrance. Here, “phool”—flower—becomes a form through which sensory memory is given weight and shape.
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