Art
The graffiti revolution
Have you ever noticed images or lettering, scratched or painted on public property? We could call it street art but it’s more commonly known as graffiti. Graffiti is the plural form of the Egyptian word Grafficar which signifies drawings, patterns or messages. History records that Graffiti art can be traced back to ancient Greece and [...]
Mobsters take street art to new heights
P413 and his mob as his team prefers to be called have been at it again. “We had to go from house to house and ask people for all their newspapers,” laughs mobster Chrishan De Mel. Their attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the “Largest Papier Mache Sculpture” as upcoming artist P413 himself [...]
Living without a life
The name ‘Hantane’ conjures up a picture of the most evanescent but romantic and beautiful period of anybody’s life: youth. For though there are other universities around the country there is probably no symbol more archetypal, more powerful, of youthfulness than Hantane and the Peradeniya University. This has been so deeply imprinted into the popular [...]
