Author: Tharindu Amunugama

The unnamable is named The Omnipresent 'residenced' The undefinable given form The intangible rendered touchable - - in the good-neighborliness…

The sacred and profane creature and tree the past and future and a river running through it all...

Knots within and without pathways that encircle and in encirclement strangle but a gaze that at once looks within and…

history tangible time felt between fingers things rebirthed and reborn -- 'updated' one could say.

Pick your frame and frame your pic -- there's word play and there's the indescribable.

runways and take-offs levitation of body unfettering of imagination parallel lines do meet if we twist reference-frames and wings we…

Color, shape and cultural memory deft and effective tools are they sculpting from nothing some essence persuading eye to be…

Color it whichever way you like flag it, decorate it and iconize -- there's always a path a destination too…

Along the river upon the banks seeds were carried or sown a strand added to tapestry [not the first or…

On earth in water floating in the sky mountains and elements in planes that caress and territories unseen

from object to reflection air to water and back so the eye gathers the stationary and moving reflects on reflection…

The arc of the oar water and sun in courtship diurnal and immemorial as old as man and work and…

Historical strands in salt-pepper seasoning, trails revealed and kept secret in the roll of flesh and years, eyes that know…

At the intersection of land and water like a lotus upon the surface touching and yet untouching designed or chance…

There are landscapes that can be sliced vistas that bled and are yet to heal there are rough roads from…

day's end is for flight: profits disappear value-makers retire; and daybreak brings them back one to create the other to…

a faraway of flames that rise and will subside a line that is now crimson but later silver -- it's…

The cross is heavy in its constituent parts in their aggregate The cross is light in its constituent parts in…

මුදුන අරමුණු කරගත්තෝ මුදුන දැක පිය මනින්නෝ සැවොම සසර සැරිසරන්නෝ අනෝමා ගං හමුවන්නෝ උඩුගං ගොසින් නවතින්නෝ

we move when we don't we are still when we are not we reflect and are reflected we compose and…

Omniscient gaze can from multitude pick one omnipresent and yet present in the limited language of humanity we call it…

They know water and the intimacy of dust -- that's tank, bund and life a sansaric road running through it…

වන්දනාවට අවම උපරිම දුරක් නැත පෙනෙන නොපෙනෙන මාන වුව කම් නැත අනුරාධ පුරවරය මෙයයි නොකියමි මෙය නොවේ යැයිද නොකියමි මෙතැන…

One at a time two perhaps for the young and nimble a summit, an image, a moment -- some leave…

and light will embellish and fade light within can be drawn out when lights are out fragrance gone and mind…

Descent and ascent immersion and surfacing: a timeless cocktail of words and silences an island signature

Somewhere within, relics and without, the frames the capture of history doctrinal argument or a pleasing composition -- Jetavanaramaya is…

Wade into the weva and you walk into history wander into lives, livelihoods and life-breath; here you can gather color,…

Man and mammoty mammoty and soil soil and air: as ancient as they come as modern as it can become…

Were they there and left are they yet to arrive did conversations mingle with words that came before or are…