Hashan Cooray

Finding myself between fragments.
In “True Faces That Break Like Puzzles”, the form resists wholeness yet reveals more in its fractures.
This moment, caught in the making, where my own face slips through the gaps of the sculpture… as if the work is quietly reconstructing me in return.

Process is never separate from identity it cuts, rearranges, and exposes what lies beneath.

Dissection, in this context, is not an act of violence, but of learning.
To separate is to reveal structure where fragmentation holds its own kind of truth.

True Faces That Break Like Puzzles X, 2025
Acrylic, Lacquer, Graphite and Charcoal on Wood
33 x 31 x 29 cm
13 x 12 1/4 x 11 3/8 in

A larger body, carrying the same inquiry.
Fragments assemble, but refuse resolution held in a precise tension between construction and collapse.

The face emerges only to resist itself. It is not presented as an image to be recognized, but as a structure to be confronted cut, reorganised, and left deliberately incomplete.

Scale intensifies the process. What was once intimate becomes undeniable. The work asserts itself as both object and system where control and instability coexist.

This is not a finished form. It is a condition in motion.

True Faces That Break Like Puzzles IX, 2026
Acrylic, Lacquer, Graphite and Charcoal on PVC Echo Board
213 x 154 x 154 cm
83 7/8 x 60 5/8 x 60 5/8 in

The face shifts from representation into a site of study something to be tested, rearranged, and understood.

True Faces That Break Like Puzzles VI , 2026
Acrylic, Lacquer, Graphite and Charcoal on Wood
49 x 18 x 20 cm
19 1/4 x 7 1/8 x 7 7/8 in

Each work is built from interlocking components cut, measured, and arranged like specimens laid out in a laboratory.

True Faces That Break Like Puzzles VII, 2026
Acrylic, Lacquer, Graphite and Charcoal on Wood
33 x 22 x 21 cm
13 x 8 5/8 x 8 1/4 in

This same method extends to the human face approached not as an image, but as a structure to be examined, separated, and reassembled.

True Faces That Break Like Puzzles IV, 2026
Acrylic, Lacquer, Graphite and Charcoal on Wood
42 x 29 x 28 cm
16 1/2 x 11 3/8 x 11 in

By cutting through form, the focus shifts from appearance to structure how parts support, interrupt, and define one another.

True Faces That Break Like Puzzles VIII, 2026
Acrylic, Lacquer, Graphite and Charcoal on Wood
44 x 21 x 22 cm
17 3/8 x 8 1/4 x 8 5/8 in

A flower, taken apart blade by blade shifting attention away from beauty, toward structure.

True Faces That Break Like Puzzles I, 2025
Acrylic, Lacquer, Graphite and Charcoal on Wood
33 x 33 x 23 cm
13 x 13 x 9 in

The work holds the quiet residue of the entire sequence an image that acknowledges change while preserving the memory of what once was.

The Moment Before Withering IX, 2025
Mixed Media on Paper
102 x 76 cm
40 1/8 x 29 7/8 in

The work reflects a moment where presence grows increasingly fragile, yet refuses to disappear entirely.

The Moment Before Withering XI, 2025
Mixed Media on Paper
102 x 76 cm
40 1/8 x 29 7/8 in

The Moment Before Withering IX, 2025
Mixed Media on Paper
102 x 76 cm
40 1/8 x 29 7/8 in

What was once firm begins to soften. The image retains its presence while quietly leaning toward transformation.

The Moment Before Withering VI, 2025
Mixed Media on Paper
102 x 76 cm
40 1/8 x 29 7/8 in

The image pauses within its own duration, as if time itself hesitates before moving forward.

The Moment Before Withering VIII, 2025
Mixed Media on Paper
102 x 76 cm
40 1/8 x 29 7/8 in