The post-war Sri Lanka witnessed “an unraveling of a political carnival, I was inspired by this, and the extravagance that it attempted to project. This collection captures this ‘extravagance'” says Sri Lankan artist Gayan Prageeth, whom I met at Colombo’s Saskia Fernando Gallery on a rainy Wednesday afternoon to talk about his latest collection of paintings, ‘Extravagance’. The very use of the term ‘carnival’ instantly drew me into this conversation and I wanted to know more. And so we began to talk about some sensitive political realities Sri Lanka has been grappling within the post-war era. This article is based on this conversation, and expands into my personal analysis of the artist’s collection.