Monday, October 20, 2008

CONTEMPORARY




WHOSE LIE IS IT? NO: 1

Plastic Wigs

Whose lie is it no.1 creates an optical illusion that ascending could also be seen as descending. The design is composed of spiral stairs made of red plastic wigs which are contained by three colossal machines four meters wide, three and a half meter high. It makes us to think how desperate our efforts to reach somewhere, to rise above, even when we thought that we finally succeeded, we only draw circle around our selves. Similarly, descending could also be perceived as ascending. Never less, the truth is, there is no way out. The things we saw, the things we perceived are just illusions. As a perception our so illusory and if all our assumptions and knowledge are based on our perceptions, then we live a true lie, a lie that transcends us. Our one and only source of information, our very foundation, our single witness is our perceptions, yet they are liars.

This is the explanation of this work probably its written by the artist but it is an anonymous article.

Thursday, October 16, 2008





I choose photography as my activity. Every Thursday I will take this class for 40 minutes. These are the first photographs that I took for my class. I took a decision every week I will post my favorite photographs to my blog beside my posts. Hope you'll like it. I hope this photography class will be beneficial for me and for my portfolio. Please make comments to my photos:).

Thursday, October 2, 2008

What is art? A hard question...

For bayram, our Turkish teacher gave us an essay topic about art. We have some questions to answer and we a magazine article and interviews about art. Milliyet Sanat (the magazine) asks several questions to the artists, designers, editors, art teachers, photographers and authors. English author Jeanette Winterson's answer about art affected me very much. She said” Art will make us better, because it offers us an alternative values system, it is against to capitalism. Because we can’t' buy the art cheaper from Hong Kong, we can’t breed the hormonal one in the laboratory. It doesn't have a "deadline" and you can’t invest the art to the bank.

What is your comments about art?