PORTFOLIO

MANSI SARAF MIRASHI

TEXTILES

CREATIVE WORKS

MY SECOND HOME

This is my second home. My JJ school of art

where my life changed and it got a new

perspective. Its just not a building, but its my

mother. Whenever I missed my mom I used to sit

here and feel as if I am with my mom. It has given

me everything I needed. It has given me love and

many beautiful friends.

this was just a something I could do for

my mother my JJ….

Medium : batik and bandhani mix media

Size : 3ft X 4 ft

MUSICAL TROOPS

Rajasthan is a land of art,

colours and warmth. Listening

to their music in chaukidani was

a real fun.

Through this painting I

tried to capture the mood of

the atmosphere, chilling night

and the colours in their

monotones background. I tried

to catch the expressions of each

of the performer as each one of

them were well involved in the

music they were playing which

was really lovely making us

proud of our motherland who

has given us such a wonderful

culture..

Medium : batik on cotton

Size : 3.5 ft X 2.5 ft

EMOTIONS SELF PORTRAIT

In this painting I am there in different

phases of my life. Each frame depicts the

role I play and my emotions in every

surrounding I go.

Each phase of life is very different

and challenging than the other. Its impact

on me is seen by different forms and

colours used.

Medium : batik on silk, coloured

fine threads

Size : 2ft X 3ft

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MOKSHA

Medium: mix media,

batik, gauze.

Size :3 ft X 3 ft

MOKSHA is a salvation or liberation from

the sufferings or dukha that we face. These

sufferings are mainly due the rituals which we

perform with a thought to please god for our

selfish needs.

Through this painting I want make the society

realize that we are sleeping for several decades in a

coffin of orthodox culture made by ourselves. It’s

our own duty to overcome maya a feeling of being.

We should break the coffin and breath out of the

illusion that physical world is real and see the

absolute reality beyond that. It is just the ignorance

avidya that keeps man back from liberation. We

people are like crows who are stucked in the fence

of rituals. We wear the red ritual thread to be away

from the effects of our deeds or sins and pray to

god to save us from all the black magic.

Though all of us are trying to get rid of all these

burdens we are not realizing that these burdens

are made by us and not god. He does not want

anything. Rather he tells us to do our karma deeds

efficiently and than leave everything on him. He is

there to give us moral support and strength to

face everything what comes in our way bravely.

The person who understands the real meaning

of his own existence, the one who really gets

involved in the almighty in true sense and believes

what really is he asking for gets liberated gets

moksha from all the sufferings he is facing. Just have

faith in him he is always there for us. We don’t

need to ask for anything to him.

SCHOOL CHALE HUM

The most innocent phase in human life is childhood. It

is the stage where human foundations are laid for a

successful adult life. But this is not the story of too

many children….

Child labor is still common in some parts

of the world. These children work in all conditions,

even also for minimal pays, leaving behind their

childhood and their days of learning. They neither have

proper clothes to wear nor do they have alternate

clothes to change the toned unclean ones. We often

see them in dirty worn out banyans.

Government recognize the right of the

child to be protected from economic and from

performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or

to interfere with child’s education, or is harmful for

them from any point of view. Child labor is legally a

crime but still about 250 million children are working

far away from the reach of official labor inspectors and

from media scrutiny.

This painting highlights on the roughness

faced by these kids working at different places in very

harsh and difficult situations which turns them hard

and tough, loosing all the softness they had in them. It

also depicts their desire of getting mother’s warmth

and their urge of learning and playing. All this clearly

puts forward a statement before the government that

‘if you government is not able to put child labor to an

end, than salute this labor child with a bravery award

for his BRAVE HEART AND BODY’…….. Medium : collage with different textured

materials, colour

Size : 2 ft X 3 ft

WEAVING

Electronic Jacquard : Self portrait

Honeycomb weave

Paper work Sample

Herring bone weave

Paper work Sample

Dogs tooth weave

Paper work Sample

Diamond weave

Paper work Sample

Manual Jacquard : Forest 1

Carpet : Forest 2

FURNISHING PROJECT

FURNISHING PROJECT

The furnishing designs in this project are designed for very

beautiful houses constructed by a famous architect Nari Gandhi.

His designs are extraordinary and are very close to nature. All

the designs are based on organic architecture.

So as my furnishing designs are very close to his

designs. Each of the design is made keeping the element nature

and colour scheme in mind. The designs are subtle and so they

merge in the interiors of these houses.

All the elements used for furnishing designing are

inspired by the stone and brick work, the gaps between the

rocks, trees, flowers in the gardens and the colours in the

interiors. Rocks and leaves are the major elements used. The

main aspect kept in mind while designing is that no design or

colour should look different or odd from the architecture. It

should completely merge in the background and still retain its

own identity without disturbing the whole atmosphere.

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Small decorative show cushions of 9” X 9” for screen printing

Sofa design in 9” X 9” repeat for screen printing &

Double bed sheet design done in a repeat

of 9 X 9” for screen printing

Curtain of 168 X 183 cm done in a repeat of

9 X 12” for screen printing

Design for single bed sheets of 100 X 60” proportionately made less to

20 X12” for digital printing techniques

Design for double bed sheet of 100” X 100”

proportionately made less to 20” X20” for digital printing

techniques

REGIONAL PROJECT

Shall design inspired from the motifs of

Himachal Pradesh

Kurta design inspired from the motifs of brocades

of Uttar Pradesh

Dress material design inspired from the paithani

motifs of Maharashtra

Sari design inspired from the motifs of vyankatgiri and

mangalgiri sarees of Andra Pradesh

Above design is one sari design with heavy pallav and

simple body inspired from the baluchari sari design of

West Bengal

Dress material design with its sample print inspired from the motifs of the

embroidery of Kashmir

PRINTS

Paper work with the printed sari of chiffon done in pigment printing

Paper Work of a border sari

The festival of kites Surrealism

Designs for dress materials

Design for a sofa wit a

horizontal cross repeat.

Design for a skirt for air hostess

of Indian Airlines

2D DESIGNS

Designs based on natural elements in nature

jungle

Design based on negative parts in a room

Thank You