The Year of the Runaways

Sunjeev Sahota

2015

Full brown goatskin with onlaid Moriko Kozo tissue, highlighted with acrylics. Hand tooled in 23ct yellow and red gold. Hand coloured edges and hand sewn headbands.

This is a tale of Indian illegal immigrants coming to the UK to work on a series of miserable jobs. In my design the workers are represented by the marigold petals being tossed across the Sheffield night skyline whilst Guru Nanak the Sikh deity watches over the proceedings.