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Metta began in my grandmother's kitchen in Aluvihare, long before I knew it had a name. Here's how a hearth, a word, and forty years of memory became a painting.

The story behind Return to Eden: goddess paintings made from petals, bark, rose hips and beach clay, shown at Mystik River Gallery, Southbank, Melbourne.

Finding Voice in the In-Between As a Sri Lankan artist living and creating in Australia, I constantly navigate the space between worlds. The Western art landscape surrounds me, filled with established tropes, tools, and tastes. My Eastern heritage is rich with its own aesthetic traditions and ways of seeing. Yet, there exists a third space where my eco-print paintings emerge, guided not by cultural expectations but by the whispered instructions of leaves, bark, and botanical

'Why should just black lives matter, all lives should matter?' is a question that most race-oriented folks say. By race-oriented, I mean...

Thank god I'm not raising bitches and hounds!' That would be my response to people who say raising my children to practice 'co-operation,...