Multicellular ancestors for over one and half billion years, still evolving on earth together. There is no life in isolation. We're kindred, both in matter and spirit. Photographed in the Dumbara mountain range (2025).

Shehan Obeysekara is a multi-disciplinary artist, photographer and filmmaker, based in Rathnapura, Sri Lanka. He has spent years traveling extensively around the island photographing nature, and the people and places that surround them. During these journeys’ he has observed immense beauty, decay and the subtle and loud tensions in the relationship between nature and human society. Over the years both commissioned work and personal projects has been guided by the passion to learn and expose these tensions to himself and to hopefully to others through his work.

Printed with archival pigment ink on 230gsm pro premium matte archival quality paper.