Saturday, November 16, 2013

The Lens



During my visit to Istanbul, while I was roaming around I stumbled upon a woman, who was wearing a Hijab, taking a photo of some view she found worthy to be recorded. She was looking through a lens to see the world as people who look at her look at a lens to see her. She may be a conservationist and an anti-liberal but in the case that she is not, we have placed ourselves before a lens, which places a prejudice within it. In my painting of Istanbul I wanted to convey the role of the lens that we sometimes place when viewing everything that is surrounding us. The camera is taking a photo of the blank spot; thus the beholder of the camera is recording everything but the grandeur of a beautiful city as Istanbul.











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