documented object and Pulitzer checklist
- Shared facts
- Shelter · 1983 · cast paper · 8½ × 12 × 3 in.
- recorded detail
- Flecked with 22-karat gold leaf
Sculpture · 1983
Shelter
A low cast-paper form turns the outline of a roof into a compact, hand-scaled place of enclosure.
Date1983
recorded mediumCast paper flecked with 22-karat gold leaf
Dimensions8½ × 12 × 3 in.
The Pulitzer Arts Foundation exhibited Shelter with the same title, date, cast-paper medium, dimensions, and Collection of Zarina designation. That checklist describes the work simply as cast paper; it does not mention gold leaf. The site retains the fuller recorded medium while keeping its attribution visible.
Pulitzer’s gallery text connects Zarina’s cast-paper reliefs to architecture she encountered in northern India—courtyards, arches, stepwells, and balanced geometric forms. Here the shelter remains small and materially dense: an architectural sign made into an object rather than a literal model of a particular building.
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