Artist Statement

Through out the year, my work has been undergoing a dramatic change. My work all began with the idea of being in the sea and drifted towards the rest of the nature. After a while I started doing stop-motion animations, I started seeing them as drawings or paintings becoming alive and starting to move.

“A tail of nature” was my first alive drawing/painting, it takes a Caretta turtle’s journey back home with the flow of nature as a subject. Further more with stop-motion animations, their stories tend to change according to who watches them but the main elements in them is the constant change which everything on this earth piece should experience. 

Change is a great aspect of my work as the main idea behind it is that nothing can resist change. Accepting the change can be hard and overwhelming, yet to flow with the change might be a key to happiness and peace.

The eyes in the stop-motions are symbols to how a human naturally seeks beyond. Its curiosity, and exploration instinct. Towards the latest projects, the question in my head changed and I started questioning humans role on earth rather then destroying it. I would assume that human is a form of creature which can feel anything, any moment just like natures movements. Instead of earthquakes and thunderstorms a human may yell or scream and when a human is happy it is all like birds and bees 

I also explored how senses work with using sounds in my artworks. Finding the right sound for the images is important to capture the observer into the flow of the view. Human’s 5 senses are to touch, hear, taste, smell and sight. By doing slight adjustments on the circumstances you can eliminate some to concentrate on certain other ones.

Seeing is the first step towards exploring. Eyes are familiar characters in my artworks as they are the first element in experimenting, to see what will happen, which brings us to how I create these sight catching images and combine it with the second sense (sound). Music and Drawing are the two pure forms of creating through the unconscious, from deep within, as a result of this, the images and sound love each other like strawberry and chocolate. By this way I will be able to catch two off the senses of the observer, as the other senses can’t be distracted by anything in the room the observer should drift through the images flowing.

mesafeler

Humans have been taken from the jungles and instead they have been put in to a massive concrete jungle. Now humans are seen as the destroyers of the earth. However …

epic

This week I needed to make sure there was a difference between my attempts and this very piece. Adding new elements in my work helped to  create better contrast using …

Dalga

 

Attempt 2 caught a monotonous flow occurred by the music but the lights and a bigger shooting surface helped improving the quality of more generative visuals.

güneş

Güneş means sun in Turkish and the piece güneş shows us how the natures flows and works how everything is connected to each other. is a mostly black and white …

Paul Purgas

It was really interesting to attend to an artist talk where the artist took part in the 2017 Boiler Room London Dj Set.

Purgas is a very versatile and influential artist in terms of the branches he work with. He is a musician, practicing electronic sounds, the artist also studies curating, installation and architecture. He studied architecture in both University of Westminster and the Royal College.  He has been taught by important architects such as Cedric Price during his study years.

It can also be seen in his performances that Paul Purgas has a very strong communication with observers through sounds and images. The sounds he use are pure electronic melodies and tones including relaxing and flowing noises like white noise. The love and obsession for his music started off listening to Detroit Techno. He has met a Detroit Techno Dj called Jeff Mills and started going towards techno.He wanted to transform his music into a more minimal techno like stage by using less notes and simpler melodies but I believe Paul Purgas has created his own Detroit/Minimal Techno. With his percussion and sweet beats Purgas as formed a captivating performance in the 2017 Boiler Room.

Nature Moving

Through the time I spent in Cyprus, I tried my best to go outdoors at least 4 times a week. I fell in love with the nature again and again …

Roni Horn

for theyre is an important between one and ones work

likes to keep the feet in the moving water

dialog with surroundings

water works he feels like re descovering it

likes re descovering and exploring waer over and over again

her work includes a realationship between water and human

 

ICELAND:

cold / like a studio / hunting, mining / need to be there

lives in the lighthouse

The aim was to display water in a flow through the building (uni) making studets calm

people and water both flowing around

portraits eroticity and ambiguity

they spent so many time together with the face model which added a trust to the work

reccuring and repetitive photographs  (portraits/lockers)

voyeuristic space

shots are like ghosts “as visual traces” the artist says

captured  her cousins growth and path of becoming a woman

she worked with many different phases of the girls growth

her piece was coming and going in between 2 and 3 dimensional images

panels and design good way to affect audience.

distorted clown (psychological and symbolic)

used drawing technique on photos

language and text stronger then her visuals she first symbolic visual

 

[no title] 1999 Roni Horn born 1955 Presented by the American Fund for the Tate Gallery, courtesy of the American Acquisitions Committee 2005, accessioned 2008 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P13062

 

Evan Ifekoya

Ifekoya’s work included sound and some visuals alongside, I personally wasn’t interested in her work, even though she is really successful in passing on ideas with her mixes and lyrics.

Tate Exchange !

This Tuesday was a special Tuesday it was no, going to the art department trying to wake up for an hour. A coach picked us up from the parking lot in the University and took us to Tate Modern. This was my first ever time in Tate Modern! We went there for the Tate Exchange workshop. Tate Exchange is a workshop run with ArtLAB.

We were there as co-researchers and as co-researchers we jumped in an adventure with primary and secondary school kids to explore, clay, 3D Scanning/Printing and Green Screen. There were a couple of stations for the children to visit during their day with Tate Exchange,first of all they went to the clay section they experimented some features of clay with each other.  They also had lots of fun wrapping themselves and other objects in pink plastic sheets, this was an activity done to create awareness on breast cancer, they were really successful in wrapping up everything they could find.

The next section was the Green Screen section, the kids were really excited when they learned we were going to make a short film using the green screen features. They were incredibly creative from the beginning to the end of the green screen shooting. They were collaborating to make costumes for everyone in the group and they divided their jobs between themselves. Finally every group of students completed their green screen shooting successfully. We had a great photograph taken with everyone in Tate exchange that day and enjoyed the London view from the 10th floor a little bit.

3D Scanning was going on the whole day, between the sections we had some time to show the students how does 3D scanning work, as I have joined the ArtLAB workshop before I was working with the scanner through the whole process and I was scanning the work kids created or some moments from the workshop including the students.