“My
Father’s Walnut”
is my latest installation and is made of two parts, a double video
which I shot at the end of September, and the engraved mirror I used
for the filming. The double video is a reflection of a tree in a
mirror and a drawing that is created while I scratch the layer of
silver coat behind the mirror. The work emerged from a period of
introspection I recently went through, and the wire refers to my
paternal bond.
“My
Father’s Walnut”
refers to two of my previous works, “The
Reflection”
(2012) and “Nail
& Eye”
(2010) both from the series “Time
& Eye”
which I made between 2010 and 2016. In “Reflection”,
I examined the shape ‘X’ of in trees and the human body. In “Nail
& Eye”,
I investigated the human body as the means of connection between the
platforms of present and future.
The
lights and shadows of the wire’s movement represent the pulses of
time, light and dark, old and new and flow bi-directionally through
the tree, towards its branches and roots. Hence, towards the
platforms of the present and the future. While contemplating what is
rough matter and what is its reflection, the front and back of the
mirror recalls the relationship of the opposites: positive/negative,
full/empty, light/dark, old/new, known/unknown, visible/invisible,
and present/absent.
