Diminishing Moments

 This model conveys the diminishing moments the 21^st century presents to the individual. We are bound to experience moments in a shorter span, thus are trying to unfold the roots of Carpe Diem. Being in the presence of this structure, a person will experience the diminishing space as they go from the right building to the very left. The mass is hanging in mid-air as the structure itself is hanging in a timeless place in architecture where there are no such constructed forms that are being built.

Counting Steps

I have this quirk, which has fortunately turned itself into an artwork, of counting steps. When I was young I thought there was something wrong with me because I could not stop counting, but as years past by I came to terms with this habit and learned to embrace this obsession.

Burn After Reading

These women are models that I stumbled upon in an arbitrary manner. They represent the picture-perfect part of the food chain. Yet they are nothing but framed inaccuracies of life; thus, with time these women, unfoil and inadvertently crack.

The Mis-Identity of Men

 This piece was inspired by Gould’s Mismeasure of Man. When placed in different settings we become different people, and eventually lose our essence. An essence which William Butler Yeats describes in his poem The Song of Wandering Aengus. This artwork conveys the different measures humans shape into and the irrationality of this endeavor. 

  

The Mismeasure of Man

This project was inspired by Stephen Jay Gould’s The Mismeasure of Man. The book consists of white men in the 18th century disparaging black men and women according to arbitrary measurements. So I placed this man on top of tape measures and elongated the skull part of him in order to convey the hollowness of men who discriminated and still discriminate today.

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.

Rooster and Eye

This piece is about the role of the man and woman in social norms. It was inspired by the doctrines people, especially women of upper class had to obey and the propriety, which became their slave drivers in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. While the women are generically suppressed the men take the spotlight. In this artwork I placed an eye in the woman’s and rooster in the man’s face. The woman, although evidence to the contrary, is the window to the soul of society whereas the man is the oblivious rooster who does not do so much as hatch an egg but only fertilizes it.