ආයුබෝවන්; වනක්කම්; ගුඞ් මෝනින්ග්

ආයුබෝවන්;
වනක්කම්;
ගුඞ් මෝනින්ග්.


කියූ දෙයක් නැත.
නොකියූ දෙයක් ද නැත.
කියූ දේ ඇති දෙයක් ද නැත,
ඝෝෂාව මිස.


ආයුබෝවන්;
වනක්කම්;
ගුඞ් මෝනින්ග්.

කොළඹ 28 දෙසැම්බර් 2010

Remnants

Top: Gadaladeniya Temple, Kandy, SL, 2003Bottom: Tivanka Image House, Polonnaruwa, SL, 2003

Doorways

Top to bottom: Neemrana Fort, Rajasthan, India, 2005; Kataragama Shrine,

Kandy, Sri Lanka, 2003; Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, 2010.

ඉලාස්ටික් ඇඳුම - Elastic Dress

රක්ත වර්ණයෙන්
දැවටී ගනිමින්
ඔබ ගතේ,
ගලා යන නදියක් මෙන්
සැම තැන සරනා
ප‍්‍රකෘතිප‍්‍රාපක
ඔය හැඳිවත
කුමක්ද?


ඇඳුමක්ද?
කලාකෘතියක්ද?
සංකේතයක්ද?
අදහසක්ද?
මේ සැමද?

18 දෙසැම්බර් 2010

‘ඉලාස්ටික් ඇඳුම’ (චායා අභිවහනය), සංකල්පකරණය හා අභිවහණය: අනෝලි පෙරේරා
'Elastic Dress' (Photo Performance), Conceptualization and performance: Anoli Perera

Photo: Sirmal Silva; Makeup: Dilki Perera

The Body Shadowed

Yours is not a body
where sensuousness is enshrined.
Its curves, desires have become
mere relics of a bygone past,
a forgotten memory,
faded images on a wall
where intense gazes no longer fall.
You are in a shadow
devoid of existence
beyond yourself.
It’s a zone
marked by the passage of time
and the ravages of bygone moments;
it’s a comfort zone
that nurtured generations
made uncomfortable
in the present
and by the future.
Lost to the
memory of the world,
you exist
only in your own memory
and in the shadows of time.

November 2010, Tokyo

‘Measured, Stitched and Stretched’ (Painting, 2010) / ’Silent Grievers’ (Installation, 2007).  Artwork and image: Anoli Perera, 2010.

Spirits of the Departed

These little statues are known as Mizuko Jizo at the Zoojou-jin Buddhist temple in Tokyo; an influential site of religion and politics at its peak, the temple was a site of Tokugawawa power and resting place for some of its main characters. Each statue is supposed to represent a dead child as far as I could understand and thereby linking the temple very clearly with death and memory of the dead.

 

Contemplation