Siri Perera

Center2?Sacred Spaces, 1999/2000.
Oils on Canvas, 182cm x 152cm.
Center3?Sacred Spaces, 1999/2000.
Oils on Canvas, 182cm x 167cm.


The Sacred Spaces series is of intangible Spaces. The subtle made apparent, as in the Aboriginal song below.

Tree..........
He watching you,
You look at tree,
He listen to you,
He got no finger,
He can't speak,
But that leaf......,
He pumping, growing,
Growing in the night,
While you sleeping,
You dream something,
Tree and grass same thing,
They grow with your body,
with your feeling.

While the tangible has advantages, it is the intangible that makes it useful, points out the Chinese Master Lao Tzu, writing in the Tao Te Ching in the 6th. century B.C. Could these 'Sacred Spaces' be like the trees and grass, growing with ones feeling, searching for its center.