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.

Untitled (letters to a future self)
2021

Watercolor on journal page

  • Watercolor paint, colored pencils, and blue ballpoint pen on A5 paper.
    5.8 × 8.3 inches

    Original prose by Haseenah Casseer.

Untitled (when I am alone with you)
2021

Coffee on letter paper

Mourning my Almirah.
2021

Acrylic on treated wood

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

  • Coffee grounds (diluted using water and acrylic paint), graphite pencil, and black ballpoint pen on letter paper.
    8.5 × 11 inches

    Original poetry by Haseenah Casseer.

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.

ආච්චිගේ වැඩ (Aa-chchi-gay-Veh-da)
2020

Ink on newspaper

  • Black India ink, micron pens, white Gelly Roll, and acrylic paint on a local newspaper clipping (backed using mixed-media paper).
    12 × 8 inches

    English translation: Grandmother’s work.

පූසාගේ අම්මා (Poosa-gay-Amma)
2020

Drawing on mixed-media paper

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

    English translation: The Cat’s Mother.