The series’ Absence’ is a self-reflecting project that explores feelings of emptiness created by home during pandemic times. Photographs help to investigate the journey by objectifying my traumas engaging with materials. It aims to show the essential roles of the senses that we are in the habit of by the destruction of the existing order.
Our senses find meaning in the environments we live in. I never thought we could lose and reach the significance of our senses when we were leaving a place. Thus, Senses get clear in the absence. They have always been an acute complication for me. Due to my disorders, I feel some tastes intensely, and some voices incomprehensible. This sensitiveness created a big circle of habits, and even if I only lost one of the senses, I feel lost in my way.
The senses of each photograph are neither past nor the future; timeliness absences that will exist with me...
Grapes, Dionysos, mushrooms and mystic places and sliding systems that ı have never been able to stop the flow of. This series visualized the efforts of the absences that have kept me on my feet to keep up with the new normal.
I am doing this because my feelings need a new chapter. This project has ended at the same time that my biggest mental and physical struggle was solved. Keeping my senses live in my visual memory allowed me to interpret and accept my past as an artist and a human in this new chapter that opened in my life.
