ILLUSTRATIONS

Metamorphosis [back, with jacket]
2023

Fashion illustration

  • Graphite pencil on mixed-media paper.
    8.5 × 11 inches

    Created for Dominique Jackson’s Residency at NYU Steinhardt.

Metamorphosis [front, with jacket]
2023

Fashion illustration

  • 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.

Metamorphosis [front, no jacket]
2023

Fashion illustration

  • Adobe Photoshop 2022
    8.1 × 9.4 inches

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

    English translation: Help.

ගේ නම (gay-nah-mer)
2021

Watercolor collage

  • Watercolor paints, colored pencils, and black india ink on Daler-Rowney Watercolor paper.
    24 × 17 inches

    References: Google image searches (of colonial tea labels, maps, advertisements, and iconography), family archives, and personal iPhone camera roll images.

    English translation: Family name.

Mourning my Almirah.
2021

Acrylic on wood

  • Black acrylic paint on my Damro almirah.
    Located in Bambalapitiya, Sri Lanka.
    5 × 7 feet

පූසාගේ අම්මා (Poosa-gay-Amma)
2021

Drawing on Mixed-media Paper

  • Graphite and charcoal pencils on Daler & Rowney mixed-media paper.
    5 × 8 inches

    English translation: The Cat’s Mother.