looking glass

swivelling eyeball gif The Looking Glass... come on in! swivelling eyeball gif

the idea for this page came from the fact that I have an instagram but I barely ever go on it. I also have a tumblr but I'm hesitent to post photos on such a public platform. This is just meant to be a cute space for me to put all my photos no matter how old they are, most are unedited aside from cropping.

tip: some photos are portrait! hover over them to see the full image

Hanging decorations made of strung up paper fans

Some decorations I made for a concert

A kitchen absolutely covered in hazzard tape

How I wrapped my sister's present in 2026

A card with the words to Lewis Carol's 'Jabberwock', the lines swirl nonsensically

A prop I made

Backstage of a play showing a fake rosebush with colourful furniture in the background

Backstage of play

Sri Lanka - 2025

I'm half Sri Lankan (maternal) and at the end of 2025 I travelled to Sri Lanka, mostly to the South, to see family.

A glass of lemonade with mint leaves in it

A fancy looking drink I got after the beach

Closeup of a small black kitten sitting on a window sill

CAT!

View of some rooptops under a gray sky

No idea how I got a photo this good

A vine-like branch hanging down with a white flower

Some flowers on my cousins' land

Closeup of an old wooden wagon with carved patterns

A wagon outside one of the hotels I stayed at

A stack of handwoven tableclothes

Visited the Sooriya Weaving factory

A sectional warping machine with lengths of fabric in the background

This is warping machine!

Closeup of a sectional warping marchine

These things are so cool

Multiple sectional warpers with colourful yarn

They do both natural and synthetic dyes (in house!)

Closeup on a large handloom

Got to see these handlooms in action!!

I'm a huge textile nerd so this was such a cool experience, definetly the hightlight of my trip. Sri Lanka has a rich handloom textile history which is in real danger of dying out. It was so cool to see these master craftspeople just as passionate about textiles as I am. From an ethics persepective it was also such a valuble experience, the textile industry tends to be really shady and I have no idea who made the majority of my wardrobe and under what conditions. The shirt I bought there is one of my favorite items of clothing because I got see exactly where it was made and MEET some of the people involved in the process which I believe is an essential step to creating a more ethical textile industry. I'm obviously not associated with Sooriya but I genuinly reccomend it if you find yourself in Waligama, 'ethical tourism' is a buzzword that gets thrown around a lot but I think this is really an example of it (or as close as we can get in the current society.