In My Dreams

Anisha is a Sri Lankan mixed media artist whose work explores the quiet tension between pain and healing. Her work transforms personal experiences into reflections on pain, beauty, and resilience. Her recent series, 'In My Dreams' and 'Peace Amidst Chaos', offers a reshaped reality and what it means to find beauty in broken places.

In her work, the artist draws parallels between the beauty of nature. She has always been captivated by the symbolism of florals and nature elements, representing strength, pain and the process of transformation. She invites her audience to look beyond surface beauty and instead recognize the power and effort it takes to grow beyond the hand you are dealt.
 

In my dreams, I’m not here and I’m okay
In my dreams,                                   I’m okay
In my dreams, I’m not here
                              I’m not here and I’m okay
                              I’m not here
In my dreams, I’m         here         I’m okay
                              I’m         here         I’m okay

Through these fragmented phrases, Anisha explores the tension between the battle to be okay and to find peace. Her work rewrites what reality cannot erase. It creates a reality in which this suffering must be looked at. She transforms what was meant to hurt into something, beautiful. She hopes, you stop, and see beyond the colors and shapes. She hopes you understand. ‘In My Dreams’ and ‘Peace Amidst Chaos’ speak to the quiet power of survival— pain is inevitable, healing has no deadline.

Is it a kind of grace to find beauty in the places where we once felt most broken?