Relations

Jellybirds - video installation

Relations-paper, plastic,bags, black light, 95 x 15 inch

Core sample - plexiglass, plastic bags, 70 x 5 inch

Core sample - plexiglass, plastic bags, 20 x 5 inch

Core sample - plexiglass, plastic bags, 60 x 5 inch

Plastic emotions - acrylic on masonite, 48 x 48 inch, 9 x 9 inch

Jellybirds - video installation

Plastic Sea - video

I`m interested in the objects of everyday life. Of the things that we see when we are alone with our minds going back or going to somewhere. Society is a complicated form of humanity which has the quality to make things against it. Mass production is one of those things. I find the plastic bags as a symbol of this production and everyday life. I love seeing them rolling, moved by the nature and human forces from one place to another. I like the way they keep something more than the object inside of them. They keep our hunger, our thirst; they keep our interests, our feelings. After we use them, we let them free. It appears as if they can live their own life, fly with the wind, stay in the trees, simply taking a rest in some swamp, or by the sea at the rocky cliffs.

“Like Earth Day, they are for me a prompt to reflect on the relationship — sometimes vexed, sometimes beautiful, always complicated — between humankind and nature.”

Inspired by the words of Bryan Graf and few artist like Tomas Saraceno, Robert Janson, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Claudia Borgna, Lorri Ott and Virginia Fleck I began work on a few works made with plastic bags. The time that I spend with the bags convince me in their uniqueness of forms, posture and substance. I see them acting differently in a variation of surroundings and backgrounds. Their presence in the nature is so imminent that I can accept them immediately as a part of it, just as I can accept them in urban environment. I also distinguish their emotional workload and relate them with different places and memories. I see the plastic bags as a very poetic matter. Watching them in the nature they look like a different species of life. I can see them as flowers, or sometimes as birds or jellyfishes. Hence, I used to call them jellybirds. I like the way that they sound. It reminds me of the sea, waves, and sometimes rain or wind. Watching them rolling they look like another variation of tumbleweeds.

The needs of humanity create an object which defines us and shows our relation with the nature in a beautiful way.