Natalie Jonk founder Walacea recognises that there is a huge volume of exciting research  scientists would benefit from being crowdfund.  I began working with Natalie early in May 2015 after I contacted her expressing my interest in creating art /science works for the crowd funding projects that Walacea supports.

Our first collaboration has been to express the novel device that Dr. T. Nanayakkara of Kings College has invented to enable Coconut tree farmers to detect the crunching of red weevil larvae at an early stage in their trees. The short documentary (click here) that Natalie and her team put together was my starting point to begin my research along with reading Dr. T. Nanayakkara publications and researching family farming life in Sri Lanka...  see more