Seeds of Love - Dharshi de Silva

Seeds of Love - Dharshi De Silva

2025

Mixed media, eco-printing on canvas

123 x 114 cm

Seeds of Love reveals the hidden world beneath what we think we see. Inspired by the “wood wide web,” the painting uncovers the secret networks of connection that sustain life—roots, threads, and unseen pathways of support. What looks like botanical chaos at first slowly transforms into an underground universe where everything is linked, nourished, and held together.

Through the slow alchemy of eco-printing—birch leaves, pomegranate skins, myrtle seeds, eucalyptus flowers—the canvas becomes a memory map of sunlight, soil, and time. As the layers settle, eyes begin to appear: quiet witnesses scattered throughout this subterranean world. They are not watching with judgment but acknowledging existence—each one a seed of awareness, a point of consciousness connected to every other.

After two rounds of steaming and days of intuitive painting, Seeds of Love emerges as a reminder that connection is not just beautiful—it is survival. What grows above is only possible because of what happens below, in the dark, in the quiet, in the shared underground where love begins.