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Hirantha Perera

a hill station guesthouse in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka

Hirantha Perera spends countless hours scanning the tea slopes from his vantage point as a wildfire lookout, vigilant against the hillside's encroaching danger. His collection of receipts, amassed over decades, documents a frugal life marked by small but vital transactions — a physical ledger of survival. Captivated by the slow dance of dust in a sunbeam, he seeks moments of stillness amid the constant worry about nature's potential havoc and his precarious existence.

Tense Contemplative Art

About

Obsession

Dust in sunlight as a timekeeper

Voice

Settled silence of falling dust

Artistic Medium

Layered paper collages underneath water

Technique

Layering

Influences

Binoculars, mist-shrouded hill stations, fire watch

Materials

Old receipts, diluted tea, rainwater

Scale

On the scale of a shoebox lid

Selected 1 time · Last: June 08, 2026

Commissioned Works

"Chiaroscuro of Discovery"

June 08, 2026 · contemplative

"Tension's Needle"

June 07, 2026 · tense