This series documents the collateral damage of political ego: the systematic dismantling of childhood by the theater of adult war. No more suns in the corner of the page—only smoke. No more stick figures holding hands—only silhouettes fleeing the line. This is the cost of our politics. This is the trauma we pass down.
What happens to a psyche when its first memories are of water cannons and and the "boogeymen" wearing uniforms? Puck Folitics is a descent into the generational psyche of conflict. These pieces act as "artifactual memories"—visual echoes of the fear, confusion, and normalized chaos that children carry into adulthood. The series poses a brutal question: when we fight for "the future," why is the first payment always the innocence of those who have to live in it?
PUCK FOLITICS by Nuwan Shilpa Hennayake
Originally created during the 2022 Aragalay, peoples protest in Sri Lanka. Given the state of the world, I feel like this is a better time than ever to mint it.
