A Watercolour Exhibition by Pulasthi Handunge , Unchartered explores the shifting boundaries between human and animal worlds, reflecting on how urban expansion, development, and human intervention continue to reshape the landscapes we share. Drawing on the colonial notion of uncharted territories as spaces to be mapped, claimed, and exploited, the exhibition challenges the perception of nature as empty land awaiting human discovery or ownership.

Through watercolour paintings, Pulasthi Handunge reveals the lives of animals inhabiting fragmented landscapes, urban fringes, and environments transformed by human activity. The fluidity of watercolour echoes the uncertain boundaries between the natural and the constructed, capturing moments of conflict, adaptation, vulnerability, and coexistence. Ultimately, Unchartered Habitat invites us to question who has the right to define and occupy a territory, reminding us that the landscapes we seek to develop are already habitats, shaped by complex ecological relationships and inhabited by lives beyond our own.