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In Qadri’s process of working with this medium, moist paper would be pricked with a blade to create lines or dots to perforate its surface and to form lines, usually in the centre of the work. In certain readings, the perforations are seen to be like the petrification of sacred ammonite shaligrama stones that represent Vishnu for Indian worshippers. The choice of colour then may be significant. The colour purple is also commonly used to represent a higher state of consciousness and a state of spiritual enlightenment. For Qadri, ‘the dyes breathe through the paper as though they are alive—they work in ways that are revelations.’ One assumes that the viewer agrees.