The Ancestral Dress 2

Pala Pothupitiya often incorporates elements of traditional craft in his work. Candy Dance is a famous traditional dance in Sri Lanka but the dancers are socially regarded as lower class. As if he is paying homage to his own father who was a Candy dancer, the artist decorates the bust of a dancer excessively. Ironically, the materials he chooses are cheap plastic and discarded materials. He may well suggest that the contemporary industrial materials and neon lights in urban cities that he used in his work have a common allure with traditional culture.