Most Days are Cloudy
(2022-2023)
Most Days are Cloudy is an attempt at reconstructing the mood of a locale (Port Meadow) by translating its essential qualities. It is a meditation on the silver-ness of the meadow.
The project started with an extended research period where I familiarised myself with the landscape through various actions and processes of documentation. This was followed by a period of reflection on what a locale is, describing to myself the qualities that distinguish Port Meadow as a place of its own - particularly focusing on colour and mood. Finally, the 'essential qualities' were translated and constructed in a new space, as an installation. The space of the installation became a site to house and display objects from the first two parts of the project, the images and objects of documentation and meditation.
Special thanks to Harry, Matty, Simon, Chris, Eve, Rachel and Spike for patiently helping.
Demande de retrait
des encombrants*
(2023)
"60 people submitted images and texts via e-mail between the 3rd and 25th of September 2022. The submissions were made into postcards and posted at random to participants."
"3-25 Eylül 2022 tarihleri arasında 60 kişi e-posta yoluyla imajlar ve metinler gönderdi. Gönderiler kartpostal haline getirildi ve katılımcılara rastgele postalandı."
All participants received three postcards: one from a stranger, one copy of their own,
and one from myself.
Postcards to strangers /
Yabancılara kartpostallar
(2022)
148 x 105 mm
How many is too many
or
Home journey stills
(2021)
3135 x 209 mm
or
209x209 mm
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How many is too many?
What is the limit
The limit does not exist
until
you decide to define
(and one must remember that you can always un-define)
What we seem to take for granted is
that time flows in one direction
however, in the statement
which shamelessly appears
as a fact to many
we forget that time is in-dependent
and also co-dependent
simultaneously
as
it will flow forever
even if you do not wish
and even if
you are dead
if everyone is dead
and there is no one
time will still flow
for no one
which is thus
inadvertently
everyone
still
but,
also,
time will flow just for you
as long as
you are alive
and breathing
time is yours
and you
are time
Berlin to Aachen
(2021)
2 min 43 sec
“ appearances are produced from all objects, not according to the nature of the objects themselves, but according to the condition of mind or body of those to whom these appearances come ”
Aulus Gellius, the pyrrhonist view on phantasiai
The singularity of a
moment, it's full
comprehension, and
the pinhole
(2020)
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Edition of 10, printed in Paris, May 2022 - available at Librarie Sans Titre
One interpretation of the full comprehension of a moment could manifest itself in an unfolding of its space to flatten in the second dimension. The conceptual transformation of the photography and its loss remains, however the spatial arrangement of the six images assign them a new role. The perception of the viewer is shifted to think spatially rather than viewing the image as a window.
When the same six images of the moment are
re-ordered to be adjacent to one-another they no longer read as a space, but rather as six adjacent windows opening up into six adjacent moments.
Un coup de dés
jamais n'abolira
le hasard
(2019)
The poem Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard (A throw of the dice with never abolish chance)
by Stéphane Mallarmé spans over twenty pages, and is written in eight typefaces. It is one of the earliest free-verse poems, using the full space of the double spread, describing multiple simultaneous realities of a shipwreck. However, the events taking place within the poem become irrelevant, as the poem acts as a metaphor exploring the notion of simultaneity in space and time,
allowing for multiple interpretations.
The site of the double spread and my room are submerged in this installation recreating the shipwreck through three paralleled realities: the 'real', the digital (rendered), and the manufactured (scale model).
1:20 model of room, 280 x 195 x 500 mm, plaster, steel, PLA, perspex, and plastic
