This new painting (September 2007) really takes off an earlier style. Something about style that you cannot take away from an artist as it is always inherently himself. You always come back to it, to himself/herself. The final copy comes from chance, spontaneity, and at the end a certain kind of logic. There is an intuitive feeling of your way to the final composition. Here, I have in this painting, compromised with what I thought would be appealing to the viewer in that I gave him/her space which I think visually always, to me, takes away from the universal Truth of the duty of the image and that is to bring one to a new unknown space, yet here I give you the past and what you are conditioned too. I know you will recognise it, the meditative quality to a great abstract painting, will be lost in space.
Siri Perera
seeking the artist within
