little light platitudes for boon-scrolling
works on ceramic tablets
2025
Install view: Served to you with a dash of lime (group exhibtion),Paradise Road Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo, 2025
A series of hand-made ceramic tiles appropriating the visual language of familiar packaging — mosquito coils, incense sticks, cigarette boxes — and reimagining them with incongruous affirmations. Responding to the absurd overload of commercialized self-help and motivational jargon on social media, the work brings fleeting sentiment together with the easily discarded — to invite slower, tactile reflection. Mixing-up Sinhala, Tamil and English to dig at local humour, soft refusal and futility. Each tile, shaped, painted and glazed by hand, laughs sideways at the branded performance of straight edges. No hustle, only strange obsolescence.
J.O.M.O (Joy of Missing Out)
16 x 16 cm
ceramic tablet
ඒ.සැ.ඇ.ප්. (as slow as possible)
16 x 16 cm
ceramic tablet
குற்றம் is bad for soul (guilt is bad for soul)
16 x 16 cm
ceramic tablet
most things re-grow
16 x 16 cm
ceramic tab
under/over සිතන්න (under/over think it)
16 x 16 cm
ceramic tablet
දෙගිඩියාව නම් භාවනාව (hesitate just meditate)
16 x 16 cm
ceramic tablet