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Neocartouche
Neo Cartouche
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Day 2: Get Messy: Holding Light

This postcard-sized artwork is painted on textured watercolour paper and filled edge-to-edge with layered washes of warm colour. The dominant tones are ochre, amber, rust, and yellow, with areas of olive green emerging through the layers. The paint appears fluid and uneven, with visible blooms, stains, and overlaps where wet pigments have mixed and settled unpredictably into the paper. Across the surface are organic, branching marks in brown that resemble splashes, roots, or hand-shaped shadows reaching outward. Near the right edge of the image is a rounded white form, painted thickly and opaquely, standing out against the surrounding warm colours. A small darker mark sits on top of this white shape, suggesting a lid, flame, or point of contact. The composition feels loose and intuitive rather than controlled. There are no hard outlines; instead, shapes dissolve into one another through layered transparency. The surface records movement, soaking, dripping, and revision, making the act of painting visible. The overall impression is of warmth, mess, and emergence — a moment of holding light within disorder.

2nd February 2026 at 6:13 am

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Sharing a pencil

This work documents an encounter that took place while I sat and drew a small local shop in Sri Lanka on Independence Day. As I drew, members of the family who run the shop gradually gathered around me. We did not share a spoken language, but the act of drawing created a shared focus. I drew objects from the space, including their dog, and asked for the Sinhala word. Family members spoke the word aloud while I wrote it down phonetically, making mistakes and being corrected. They then showed me how to write the word in Sinhala script, clapping and laughing as I learned slowly. The pencil moved back and forth between us. The drawing did not represent this interaction so much as enable it. Through visible slowness, uncertainty, and not-knowing, drawing functioned as a quiet social act, allowing trust, proximity, and exchange to develop without explanation or shared language.

4th February 2026 at 3:45 pm

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Zen Café, Negombo (Sketchbook Page 37)

This drawing was made inside Zen Café in Negombo, Sri Lanka, and rediscovered by turning to page 37 of my sketchbook in response to the prompt. The image shows an interior view of the café: an arched doorway, a patterned metal window grille, potted plants, a ceiling fan, and a table with a drink. Pencil lines combine with light watercolour washes to record the space, its textures, and the quality of light. The drawing was made slowly, while sitting in the café, as an act of observation and presence. Returning to the page transforms it into a new artwork through re-selection, allowing the prompt to be answered by noticing what already exists rather than producing something new.

8th February 2026 at 12:56 pm

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