Temporal Notation

Mixed Media Sculpture, 2017-2018

Single Video Projector 10 min. “Loop”

The human psychology is one of the very complex phenomena we can deal with. Each and every person/individual is formed and shaped by a various number of experiences and memories which were the reasons of building and creating each character and personality; it’s what we call “Self Identity”. And the identity is the person’s essential being that distinguishes them from others.

By evolving around the concept of the abstraction of human form as a result of psychological influences.. I perceived and noticed that the body language is the authentic reflection of the human psychology. “Temporal Notation” is a self-documentation project which came from a very personal phase/state I have been through and I wanted to note it as a way of making a “self-portrait”/”self-statement”. Embody this phase by a number of human figures; 7 different movements representing a whole week symbolised by a -complete phase- which can be a month or even a whole year. And it represents the mood swings and the phases that each person can go through in his lifetime. The figures are suspended which are a metaphor of an unstable phase and by hanging them from different points creates a dynamic mood of the composition itself. Those forms are a metaphor of personal thoughts, emotions, experiences and feelings in general.

Using a text form from the book “Why am I afraid to tell you who I am” by John Powell, to emphasis the idea of my personal notation-as someone is writing his personal diary of his thoughts and feelings-and this text is relevant to each person who will read it by it’s idea of change of each personality and the dynamic state which we are all part of.