Enclosed - 2026

Long before us,

The land and the ocean

Witnessed

Every dawn and dusk…

In dialogue with the southern coastal landscapes of Sri Lanka, this work engages with terrains shaped by time and erosion held not just as land, but as living bodies carrying memory and change. Using natural materials gathered from these spaces, each mark becomes a quiet encounter. The process is slow and intuitive, guided by listening rather than control, allowing the work to emerge through a shared rhythm between hand and earth. Erosion becomes both material and metaphor. As the land shifts and reforms, I recognize the same within myself an ongoing softening, undoing, and gentle becoming. 

-Crissy Fernando

She before us or

We before her,

Once I was submerged

In the darkness without fear

Gently taken care

Moved by the wind

Still by the moon…