Sebastian Home Page where my mother is from

where my mother is from

traces of lives once lived

The series’ title refers to the historical collections of natural and ethnographic “curiosities” that were fashionable in the 17th to 19th centuries

A symbol of rebirth and renewal

The work uses analogue mark-making to keep that gap open

Sebastian Home Page where my mother is fromWhile travelling by motorcycle along the west coast of Sri Lanka, I stopped at a remote beach. As I stood watching the crashing waves, a solitary figure appeared from nowhere. He approached me, smiled, and in pidgin English said, I have no mother and no father, my name Sebastian. I asked him to pose for me, his wild hair and beard set against the restless sea, as though the force of the waves mirrored something of his inner world, his solitude, his