More nesting

Catching up with the print side of things: at crit Brian Jones said my work still doesn't have a connective thread and that my work still looks experimental. So I have to go big. I must have 4 large works by next critique.
I have been making paper nests the past two days. It's hard to get started but once you're about halfway done it starts to come together. Kind of frustrating because it constantly falls apart because I am not using any type of adhesive. I am afraid that the look too much like baskets with the torn paper because I can't tear strips of paper much smaller and I am literally weaving it all together. I am hoping the strips I cut with the paper cutter will work better. They are skinner and feel more rigid. I want to place a stone in the nest correlated with the chakra that I am making the nest for. This is based upon color therapy mostly. Pics below.
While taking a break from making paper nests I came across the idea to combine nests into the theme of meditation. I'm in visioning a birds eye view (aerial) of a nest. I want them to be large scale and printed on both sides. I want to do one of every color, referencing the chakras. After I print them I want to cut them out so that they are circular in nature, inspired by the concept of a mandala.
Pic of Carl Sagan for moral support.