Oyster Boy

Mitra started The Shell Boy when she chose a film by Tim Burton for the illustration project ” The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy”. In that project, she started to sketch from it, and she was attracted to the story of the boy, she decided to make a collection.
The boy in Tim Burton’s story is a curious boy who was born to his parents by the sea. The boy has a different appearance from others of his age, a boy with a big head in the shape of an oyster. The boy`s parents were embarrassed to have this boy.