| Born in 1969
Shakila's skill with which she finishes her collages is something to marvel at. She does not go for the textual richness and surface relief which motivated the cubists and the constructivists to introduce collage into their painting as a technical innovation. Nor is she, like pop artists, interested in the new syntaxing of whole printed images for inversion of meaning, although she does construct new images by assembling bits of already printed images. But, in the process, she totally changes the original. She only chooses strips of paper that have right hues, shades and tones, so she can give her images volume, and foreshorten them when required. Her experience of life is undoubtedly narrow, but her flights of vision often lead to surprising constructions. She created highly balanced designs with images of common place objects. |
