“Reality Check” by JC Rathnayake
Date/Time
Date(s) - 26/01/2018
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
The Galle Fort Art Gallery
Categories No Categories
About
J C Rathnayake’s artwork work depicts fantasy landscapes and trances, both of which use multiple repetitive images in keeping with the Buddhist philosophy that follows the natural world of recurring patterns, which relax the mind from stress taking you to a higher level. The multiple copies of Buddha-like and people images ensure that the mind does not focus on any specific image in favour of using peripheral vision to see the whole, which leads to an uncluttered mind by giving it a much needed break from focused processing in favour of it getting an overall relaxing feeling from the paintings. In this way Rathnayake’s art combats the increasingly cluttered world we live in where our minds are being constantly bombarded by imagery and information at faster and faster speeds with less and less processing time. The exposition of work is focused on more and more individual objects of attraction and slowly being ground down and diverted from the more global vision that comes about from more relaxed observation. His pieces, therefore give us hope, they expose the soul to spiritual enlightenment, and on closer inspection, show pieces of newspaper with Sinhala writing, the latter of which uses concentric patterns to convey messages about an island that is deeply impenetrable and complex and yet simple and divine when taken at its purest.
