Creative Statement

Why was the format and method of the final response decided? What ideas or artefacts influenced the approach?

One of the ideas that had a direct impact on the work was the theory of soothing objects in psychology, explaining why objects were so important. Attachment to objects begins to emerge from early childhood, replacing the mother to provide a sense of security. Synonymous with the outside, it represents a stable and predictable world. It should be in the right place and stay in the right state, otherwise it can be a source of panic. And the reliance on objects actually continues all the time, such as printed photographs, souvenirs and collected art.
Another is the discussion of the relationship between ego-influence, hetero-influence and the body in Derrida's On Touching. Discussing the fact that there is always the disturbance of othering influences within self-influence, that we cannot escape the connection between ourselves and the other, and that our bodily experience is always disturbed by the outside world and cannot be completely divorced from it. Consider that the space we inhabit is constantly being replaced, substituted and replenished as a necessary condition for the construction of life and the formation of subjectivity.

I therefore wanted to express the fluidity and softness of entanglement based on appeasement objects. I did some research in this regard and many artists use liquids to express the feeling of fluidity. Mimosa Echard's work inspired me in this regard with Escape more, 2022, an installation of bathroom-like atmospheres that she created using a large number of everyday objects. Gober and Breton's artworks, which use common everyday objects and create them by tapping into the unconscious, the longing, the dreaming, the irrational, have inspired my approach.


What was a particular part of the response and why?

During the creation of this work I didn't actually consider the complex metaphors of the objects. This was due to the desire to give the work more gaps and associations through a mechanism like memory. We understand the world through matter. I think that things are things. When they exist together in a space, they have meaning. Artworks do not necessarily have to use symbols or metaphors and can depict nothing. The meaning of the objects themselves and the illogical connections between them can take on the function of depiction. At the same time this makes the selection and placement of objects an unconscious act, like a sandbox game in psychotherapy. When the placement is completed and then interpreted, it is possible to discover subconscious parts of oneself that one had not thought about before.


What were the perceived successes of the responses and what were less successful?

In a previous presentation session I was pleased to hear that the responses to my work were mostly as expected. The feelings I hoped to express were shown through the material and the video.
Many people felt that it was an intimate and slightly erotic piece. I did want to show an intimate cave. But I didn't think about the erotic aspect when I made it. Perhaps the silicone gel, which is made of a fluid that is frozen in motion and expresses the transformation of the body inside and out, the display of personal space and the sensation of touching it, gives the impression of eroticism.
I think this may have come from my experience during my depression, when I was unable to perceive feelings of happiness and pleasure, and the little euphoria that pornography brought was the only emotion I could feel at that stage that was not painful. This euphoria made me realise that I was alive and allowed me to perceive the body and the life force in it. So I used these materials subconsciously.
Also I still feel that this work is not careful and complete enough. Completion is a difficult word to control, but it does exist. It still has the potential to be expanded and perhaps I will adjust elements of it that are easily misunderstood (for example the silk gloves are conspicuous and specific enough to make one subconsciously think that it is a wedding-related piece).