144 Babies

Date Created: 23rd Jan,2009

Pencil on cartage paper, copied each image once, glued on large paper attached with black strings.
size: 6 feet x 6 feet



The concept is about how our parents and environment manipulate us when we are children; how we are educated and trained to understand the concept of happiness, how happiness comes and what it means to us. We are all trapped in this life (represented by the net) and being moulded by the society.



I drew 37 white pieces, representing happiness, and 34 black pieces, representing unhappiness, and copied the rest.