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Week 8 - Testing and developing my ideas

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I started brainstorming ideas and I realised I wanted to do something where I could work by myself and produce printmaking-related artwork or textile art, or combine the two. I also wanted to include that colonialism prevented social mobility and equality in the 1800s, particularly in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).


I first did some sketches of old colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka) when the British ruled the country. It was fascinating to see the old photographs of a country rich in culture, history and religious significance. First of all, I looked at pictures of temples and places of Buddhist significance, as well as other religious monuments of the time, and combined them in one illustration. I then looked at places of history, cities such as Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa and Sigirya.


I did an illustration showing these places as of special significance to the Ceylonese (now Sri Lankan) people. They built irrigation systems that produced good crops that they were able to become very rich, and they invested in temples and Buddhist monasteries. In Anuradhapura, there are eight stupas, which is very unique and a holy place of reverence to the Buddhist community in Sri Lanka.


I also did sketches of present-day Sri Lanka, with the three-wheelers (tuk tuk drivers), tourists and locals. I also documented the passport queues, the petrol queues for cars to fill up, and the food shortages.


The last sketch I did was how I imagined Sri Lanka to be in the future, standing on its own two feet, being a strategically important place and developed economically to become the Singapore of South Asia. An economic, tech and science hub that had also retained its cultural heritage.

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