Eden - Dharshi de Silva

Eden by Dharshi De Siva

2025

Mixed media, eco-printing on canvas

133 x 140 cm

Eden captures the eternal rhythm between ending and beginning, decay and emergence. The male figure, painted in cool blues and turned away, embodies release—his body breaking down into flowers and twigs that root him back into the earth. His posture isn’t rejection but surrender, the quiet dignity of letting go so that something else can grow. Opposite him, the female figure glows with golden warmth, her body alive with movement and blooming with new possibility. Even in sleep, she radiates the pulse of creation, gathering what has been released and shaping it into what will be.

Together, they reveal that loss and renewal are not opposites but partners. Like breathing out and breathing in, they share the same root system and the same ground—each feeding the other. Eeden becomes a garden of balance, a place where memory dissolves into soil and dreams rise from it, where past and future coexist in sacred harmony. The painting’s spirit lies in this truth: we are always living between who we were and who we are becoming, held in the quiet miracle of continual transformation.