Work Description

Mass Consumerism and alienation

By facing straight to the culture, the series of art works I have done was always connected to my “Daily Life”, which is an ultimate result of my personal feelings springs out from the social, political structure of modern life.

Often I ask to my self. I all seek, in many ways, a perfectly ordinary day-to-day life. It is a fantasy in Human being. However the idea of “Perfectly Ordinary Daily Life” is derived from a narrow perspective drawn from a very limited point of recognition. Perhaps the Idea of the “Perfectly Ordinary Daily Life” becomes a blissful blindfold of which to spend our daily lives quietly. It is because of this, the “Unordinary or Abnormalities” that boils under the surface of everyday life threatens to become neglected. However, it is through art that the “Unordinary or Abnormalities” of the world emerge. Art is the gleam in the thick of darkness or the shadow in the light of day.

Daily Life is a historical event to a man who is immersed in a day-to-day life with full of vivid expectations. Daily life that is a manifestation of culture is continuously projecting various images through media. They remove the essence from the social structure and allow the media to refills the emptiness and rearrange the daily life as they wish. It is organized system.

My works have been followed endless discussions on the deferent thematic topics in top of philosophical moment. I WILL LOVE YOU ON SUNDY, MASTER BEDROOM, ENJOYMENT, LIPSTICK, LATE TOMORROW, LOSS OF PASSIVITY, THE CROWN, window shopping, if on the forsaken land’s a traveler, ready made hero. I use my own life and that of people around him as a point of departure to explore society’s obsession with matetarialism, instant gratification and our inability to confront the growing of human insensibility in the world that surrounds us. "My work focuses on my need to intersect body and place, memory and fact to re-examine human histories, cultural conditions, and events." I create art in order to document issues that are important to me. I respond to subject matter that range from daily occurrences in the media to more mundane aspects of life that are often taken for granted. I am interested in topical issues from the political and culture spheres, as well as social conditions that comment on human existence.

I work instinctively and intuitively. Spontaneity and experimentation play key roles in my creative process and I continuously edit my work until a unified composition and narrative emerges. Over the course of time, the pairing of disparate images and text collected from magazines, old children’s books, encyclopedias, pamphlets, brochures, flyers and other such sources of information, helps me recontextualize the ideas of various social behavioral patterns. What are seen in my creations are exceptionally disfigured human figures, heroes with exceptionally enlarged sexual organs, Sri Lankan materialistic fantasy, new individualism, market force, television, Consumer Goods and the figures of popular commodities in the urban life as chosen Signs with Text and word of commercial myth; I make an attempt to express my emotions of the contemporary social environment. The presentation is going to be as a visual diary. It depicts the external struggle of a contemporary Sri Lankan personality who was born in this culture.

Art is a bunch of concepts. I have developed artistic space and form with different scales on the same background. Through this I hope to express the complexities and differences of human relations. Along with brilliant color, most of my motif tries to develop or engender a deep psychological meaning based on social crisis. It has become over time a metaphor of our human existence and lifestyle - lifestyles that are not just fragmented, but are the mix of the thousands of images that leave pieces of impressions on our visual psyche as we race through a day. The shapes are organic and remixed with cartoon; remnants of life forms expressing a mystery of the incomplete and what remains to come all immersed in sexual satire. In an on going attempt to understand how color and shapes are "read" by the conscious and subconscious, I add tension. The tension (placement) between shapes and color in a composition is important in all my pieces no matter in which medium I choose to work. So, to identify my paintings as mirror reflections of these social upheavals seems to be a correct definition to my works of art.