Tangible things

Tangible things

Tangible things invite readers to look closely at the things around them, ordinary things like the food on their plate and abstract things like the safety pins across the leaves.  By human-centric ideas, we make a definition for everything. In a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things are once again making history and humans are in the center of this history. It argues that almost any material thing, when examined closely, can be a link between present and past. Human as a definition machine makes meaning for everything. In this collection like some other of my works, I am trying to expose a translation from photos to sculpture, to keep documentation in memory. I want to make a historic memory of regions that are forgotten. I am curious about the translation of images among cultures. How much the meaning of documentary photos changed from time to time by focusing on the middle east to the US? 

This plant was a small bud when I put safety pins on the leaves. The pins were a sign of what the community added to our understanding of self, not what we were born with. I am thinking about the plant as a metaphor for subjectivity. The plant has grown, but the pins, which represent religions, beliefs, and ideologies, stay present. We want to remove what society adds to a subjectivity, whether true or fabricated. The marks of these ideologies stay present, even when removed, yet the plant continues to grow.