Like explorations of several kinds, an exploration of form has been a journey into the unknown, with a few things heard and read about, a few known inlets with unknown destinations, a few tools and a fragile material, a mind prone to distractions, but also with benevolent guidance from time to time and people to people, and a hand that liked the work. It has also been an exciting journey, full of surprises and both pitfalls and reward.

And the way it happens so many times, one starts in one direction and arrives at a totally unexpected clearing. The jungle that one thought would be full of trees also harboured beautiful animals.

The intention was to explore various aspects of form, using a material with its inherent potentials and limitations and tools that would act as agents of space while carving out one form from another.

The complexity of the process lay in the fact that one had to be simultaneously aware of the clues of a potential form in the material in hand, the minimum essential characteristics of the possible form, the distortions allowable without loss of identity, the possibility of materialisation with optimum efforts, and the integration of finer details with overall form. Additional complexity was imposed by the desire to explore meaningful form by way of the removal of material with minimal or no addition to the basic shell form.