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Nuwan Shilpa Hennayake is a Psychedelic Visionary Artist from Sri Lanka. Contact for NFTs | Prints | Commission work
Psychedelic Art Sri Lanka
1. The Scream
This is not a sound; it is a frequency overload. The figure is not merely crying out—it is being dismantled by the vibration of its own distress. The striated muscle and checkerboard distortions suggest a catastrophic failure in sensory gating: the moment when the brain can no longer filter signal from noise, and internal panic begins to rewrite external geometry. The spiral eye indicates a consciousness caught in a recursive feedback loop, while the frantic, bloodshot lower eyes stare blindly into the malfunction. It is a portrait of the psyche at maximum volume, where the architecture of the self dissolves into pure dissonance.
16" x 12" | Pen on Paper
1000 USD
2. Pachyderm
A study in defensive architecture. The title refers not to the animal, but to the armor—the thickening of the psychological skin until the self becomes an impenetrable, white void. Here, the perturbation is not chaos, but catatonia; a heavy, erasing silence that occupies the mind like a physical weight. The form is massive, cumbersome, and deliberately featureless, stripping away identity in favor of pure mass. The single red dot is the anomaly: a solitary nerve ending pulsing in a sea of anesthesia. It is the precise point where the numbness fails, reminding the viewer that even the thickest hide cannot completely shut out the sting of existence.
16" x 24" | Pen on Paper
1500 USD
3. Anthropoid
The simulacrum of the human, stripped of its illusions. Here, the "self" is reduced to a series of topographic strata—a biological rhythm trying desperately to maintain its shape against a background of oscillating instability. The figure attempts to hold a pose of composure, but the facade is failing. From the sensory ports, raw entropy erupts. The chaotic, scribbled mass exploding from the face is not breath or speech; it is unformatted psychic data. It is the mind purging the static that accumulates when the primitive brain clashes with modern constraints. The Anthropoid is not speaking; it is hemorrhaging the noise it can no longer contain.
16" x 24" | Pen on Paper
1500 USD
4. Sectarian
The architecture of a colonized mind. Here, identity is no longer singular; it has been dissolved into the collective hallucinations of the tribe. The central figure—a looming, mythic totem—dominates the foreground, not as a savior, but as a heavy, inescapable weight. It blocks the view, consuming the available space for independent thought. The background tells the true story of the pathology: the stripes are not decoration; they are a panopticon. Thousands of unblinking eyes monitor the boundaries of belief, enforcing a rigid symmetry. This is the comfort of the sect weaponized into paranoia—the rupture where spiritual belonging mutates into total surveillance of the soul.
16" x 24" | Pen on Paper
1500 USD
5. Eleven Over Eight
A polyrhythm of the flesh. The title refers to a musical time signature—a jarring, unstable cadence that refuses to resolve. The image visualizes that arrhythmia. The figure is a red, embryonic homunculus, retreating into a womb of gold leaf. But this gold is not a halo; it is an isolation tank. The "mind" here is rendered as a rigid checkerboard—a binary logic processor grafted onto soft, organic tissue. It suggests a consciousness trying to impose a grid on a biological reality that is fluid and messy. The tension between the chaotic background static and the gilded silence of the interior creates a sense of suspended suffocation: a beat that skips, over and over, waiting for a synchronization that never comes.
16" x 24" | Pen on Paper
1500 USD
6. Megalocornea
A pathology of hyper-awareness. The title references a congenital enlargement of the eye, but here it signifies a dilation of the psyche itself. These eyes do not focus; they spiral. They are permanently jammed open, forcing the subject to witness more visual data than the brain can metabolize. The figure is less a person and more of an overloaded receiver. The contrast is violent: the rigid, hypnotic order of the striped body versus the ragged, entropic noise erupting from the mouth. This is the rupture of a mind that has seen too much truth and lost the language to describe it, reducing all communication to a blast of high-frequency static.
16" x 24" | Pen on Paper
1500 USD
7. Divine Migraine
Enlightenment experienced as a vascular assault. The title subverts the sanctity of the halo, reinterpreting the saintly aura as a neurological seizing. The radiating beams are not light; they are optic shrapnel—chains of unblinking eyes that project outward, forcing the subject to see in every direction simultaneously. The cranium itself is reduced to a vessel of frantic scribbles, suggesting that contact with the "divine" does not bring clarity, but a scrambling of the cognitive circuits. This is the rupture where spiritual awakening becomes indistinguishable from a splitting headache—the agony of a mind forced to process more light than its biology was designed to hold.
16" x 24" | Pen on Paper
1500 USD
8. Ignoble Silence
A corruption of the meditative state. The title inverts the ideal of "Noble Silence"—a clarity born from wisdom. This silence is the opposite: it is the paralysis of a system overwhelmed by input. The figure, stripped to raw, striated red tissue, floats in a void that is not empty, but thick with impenetrable static. The spiral eye turns inward, not for reflection, but to escape the deafening noise of the background. The black-and-white crest atop the skull functions less like a crown and more like a heatsink, attempting to dissipate the friction of a mind that has ceased communication. This is not peace; it is the quiet of a scream that has been muted by the sheer density of the chaos around it.
16" x 24" | Pen on Paper
1500 USD
9. Peak Point
The ascetic hallucination. The title suggests the summit of meditative clarity, but the image depicts the collapse of the observer into the observed. The sage archetype is rendered not in flesh, but in vibrating frequencies, his beard devolving into a checkerboard algorithm—a signal that the wisdom of age is dissolving into digital noise. He is not breathing air; he is exhaling a black, granular terrain, vomiting a new reality into existence. The background is a relentless field of eyes—a panopticon that suggests the universe is not embracing the meditator, but interrogating him. This is the rupture where "oneness with everything" mutates into the terror of having no boundaries left to defend.
16" x 24" | Pen on Paper
1500 USD
10. Conception
The genesis of a glitch. This is not a romantic union; it is a collision of incompatible architectures. On the left, a distorted grid of logic; on the right, a radiating sequence of concentric tremors. They lean toward one another, not to merge, but to grind. The white fissure separating them is the focal point—a synaptic gap where the signal is attempting to jump from one system to the other. It suggests that the creation of a new idea (or a new life) is not a harmonious blending, but a violent electrical discharge across a void. This is the moment before the spark connects, suspended in the tension between desire and incompatibility.
16" x 24" | Pen on Paper
2000 USD
11. Split
A diagram of internal mitosis. This is not a portrait of two separate entities, but of a single consciousness tearing itself in half. The composition maps the violent divergence between the rigid, binary logic of the grid (left) and the fluid, organic rhythms of the instinct (right). They are not separating cleanly; they are entangled in a parasitic embrace. The center of the image—where the patterns overlap—is a zone of pure interference. It represents the "noise" generated when the rational mind tries to dissect the emotional self, resulting in a vibrating dissonance where neither side can claim victory. It is the geometry of schizophrenia, rendered in high contrast.
24" x 18" | Pen on Paper
2000 USD
12. Antagonist
The face of self-sabotage. This is not an external enemy; it is a portrait of the psyche’s autoimmune response—the specific mechanism that attacks the self when it attempts to evolve. The figure is dense with hostile architecture: serrated edges, skeletal plating, and a crown of thorns weaponized into a defensive grid. The overwhelming symmetry functions as a trap. The unblinking, manic eyes lock the viewer in a predatory gaze, reflecting the paralyzing scrutiny of one's own inner critic. This is the rupture where the survival instinct inverts, transforming the mind into a distinct, adversarial entity that actively plots against its host.
24" x 18" | Pen on Paper
2000 USD
13. Skeptic Conscience
The superego weaponized as a surveillance apparatus. This is the internal inquisitor that never sleeps. The composition is dominated by the giant, striped profile of the Skeptic—not a moral guide, but a cold, forensic auditor. It holds a biological lens, forcing the smaller, fragile "self" on the right into a state of permanent interrogation. The chaotic, scribbled sphere on the left acts as the power source, feeding raw anxiety directly into the Skeptic’s mouth through an umbilical cord. This suggests that doubt is not an intellectual exercise; it is a parasite fed by confusion. The rupture here is the loss of privacy within one’s own mind—the exhaustion of living under the gaze of a conscience that searches only for flaws.
24" x 18" | Pen on Paper
2000 USD
14. Kaligasm
The terminal point of pleasure. The title fuses the archetype of destruction (Kali) with the biological peak of sensation, creating a portmanteau of terrifying ecstasy. The image visualizes the "little death" (orgasm) taken to its literal, fatal conclusion. The vibrant, chaotic figure on the left—tongue extended in a primal reflex—is locked in a necrotic intimacy with the stark, white void of the skull. This is not a kiss; it is a transfer of voltage. The connection suggests that at the highest pitch of intensity, the life force doesn’t affirm existence—it burns it out. The rupture here is the collapse of the distinction between agony, ecstasy, and annihilation. It captures the specific moment when the nervous system, overloaded by sensation, mistakes death for a climax.
16" x 24" | Pen on Paper
1500 USD
15. Self Mortification
Asceticism revealed as simple butchery. The title refers to the religious practice of punishing the body to liberate the spirit, but the image strips away the nobility of that act. Here, the self is not a temple; it is a carcass. Suspended upside down, the figure hangs with the passive weight of dead meat in a slaughterhouse, its red-and-black striated flesh exposed to the air. The hand at the top is not a savior; it is the cold grip of the superego, holding the biological form hostage in a state of suspended agony. The features are scattered and inverted—eyes wide with shock, teeth bared in a rictus of endurance—suggesting that the discipline has not organized the mind, but scrambled it. The rupture here is the realization that pain does not always transmute into enlightenment; sometimes, it just remains pain.
25" x 20" | Pen on Paper
2000 USD
16. Free Will
The illusion of agency masked as a portrait. The title is a cynical caption for a diagram that suggests such a thing does not exist. The face is violently bisected, not into "good" and "evil," but into the Program and the Performance. The left side—a rigid topography of red and black grids—represents biological determinism; the inescapable machinery of the subconscious. The right side—a stark, theatrical white mask—is the social interface, the calculated persona we construct to hide the machinery. The rupture here is the total absence of a "chooser" in the middle. The image argues that what we call "free will" is merely the oscillation between our genetic coding and our social acting.
25" x 20" | Pen on Paper
NOT FOR SALE
17. Con-Temporary Grin
The rictus of the digital age. The title operates as a double entendre—a "con" (fraud) that is fleeting ("temporary"). The image visualizes this deception. The "grin" is not a muscular contraction of joy; it is a rigid, white beam of architectural scaffolding projecting violently from the face. It acts as a hard-edged barrier between the subject and the world. The skull itself is fracturing into pixelated squares and chaotic stripes, suggesting a consciousness that is decomposing into data. The background swirls with liquid instability, while the grin remains stark, static, and terrifyingly artificial. The rupture here is the exposure of social performance as a heavy, industrial prop—a synthetic structure that the psyche is struggling to uphold against the entropy of its own disintegration.
20" x 21" | Pen on Paper
1500 USD
