Portable art, three venues, Istanbul, Turkey

Ador(n)ation / Be(n)zeme

The need to see beauty and adorne  one’s surrounding with beauty is present in man’s genes. It is a force which guaranties  the continuation of the human species. Almost any form of adornation is derived from nature.  This installation called Ador(n)ation (3.20m.x 3.20mt.) consists of a patterned floor made up of dried lavender flowers.  The pattern has 2 designs, each of which is used inverted as well. These designs make up new designs because of the way they are put together. One can find floors like this  in old houses and this is where the idea of making this work started from. Each of the two designs is based on the drawing of an existing seed. When stylized to use for the pattern, one design  looks like the (human) male organ of reproduction and the other reminds of the (human) female organ of reproduction.  To have them locked together in a pattern made up with natural materials mirrors mans relation to nature.