Collages

Still II (from Titled:Trilogy)
2025

Digital collage

  • Adobe Photoshop 2025
    16:9 (aspect ratio)

    Sources: iPhone camera roll, New York Public Library Image Archive, text excerpts from poems written by the artist.

    Featured in Echoz Magazine, Issue 4: Catharsis.

Still I (from Titled:Trilogy)
2025

Digital collage

  • Adobe Photoshop 2025
    16:9 (aspect ratio)

    Sources: iPhone camera roll, New York Public Library Image Archive, text excerpts from poems written by the artist.

    Featured in Echoz Magazine, Issue 4: Catharsis.

Alte/ar
2024

Digital collage

  • Adobe Photoshop 2024
    8.5 × 11 inches

    Sources: family album, Google image search (of NYC synagogues), text excerpts from personal reflections.

සමනල යකා (Samanala Yaka) I
2024

Digital collage

  • Adobe Photoshop 2024
    11 × 6.18 inches

    Sources: family archive, Google image searches (of various Sri Lankan landmarks, colonial design features, and rock paintings), New York Public Library Image Archive, iPhone camera roll.

    English translation: Butterfly Demon

සමනල යකා (Samanala Yaka) II
2024

Digital collage

  • Adobe Photoshop 2024
    7.1 × 4.6 inches

    Sources: family archive, Google image searches (of various Sri Lankan domestic spaces, pre-colonial motifs, and landscapes), New York Public Library Image Archive (Lionel Wendt Photography), text excerpts from Sri Lanka’s Penal Code (article 365A; addressing queerness), iPhone camera roll.

    English translation: Butterfly Demon

සමනල යකා (Samanala Yaka) III
2024

Digital collage

  • Adobe Photoshop 2024
    8.5 × 11 inches

    Sources: self-portrait, Google image searches (of various Sri Lankan advertisements, colonial tea packaging labels, and landscapes), text excerpts from Sri Lanka’s Revision of Election Registers, alongside personal reflections.

    English translation: Butterfly Demon

කොල්ලා (Kolla)
2024

Digital collage

  • Adobe Photoshop 2024, Adobe Illustrator 2024
    13.1 × 17 inches

    Sources: family archive, self-portraits, AI-generated background (using Adobe Firefly; Prompt: Ceylon mansion with water features by the entrance and at least one balcony), Google image searches (of Sri Lankan relics, butterfly species, and Sinhala newspaper clippings),
    shot on Canon R6 DSLR (personal archive).

    English translation: Young Boy

MET එකේ අරගලය (MET eke Aragalaya)
2023

Digital collage

  • Adobe Photoshop 2022
    7 × 11 inches

    Sources: Google image searches (of the 2022 #GotaGoHome movement across Sri Lanka and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city).

    English translation: Protest at the MET.

උදව් (Oo-dha-ow)
2023

Digital collage

  • Adobe Photoshop 2022
    8.1 × 9.4 inches

    Sources: Google image searches (of New York City sidewalks),
    iPhone camera roll.

    English translation: Help.

දිගන්තය (Dhi-gun-thaya)
2023

Digital collage

  • Adobe Photoshop 2022
    10 × 8 inches

    Sources: Google image searches (of New York City Hudson Piers),
    iPhone camera roll images from the Colombo City Centre balcony.

    English translation: Horizon.

අභිලාෂය (Abhi-laa-sha-yuh )
2023

Digital Collage

  • Adobe Photoshop 2022
    11 × 8.5 inches

    Sources: Google image searches (of New York City Christopher Street Piers), iPhone camera roll image of my younger self photographing my grandmother in our family home.

    English translation: Dream / Wish.

TRANS AGGRESSION
2022

Textile Collage

  • Found textile, cardboard, letter paper, puffy acrylic paint, woolen thread on cloth canvas.
    5 × 7.7 feet

    Selected as the winner of the art section in Nassau Literary Review's annual National Undergraduate Art & Writing Contest 2023.