16 July 2007

glass road



glass road, has been designed by taking the fruit pomegranate that means accession, birth and fertility.

candy –bear gummy candy- that is the symbol of the childhood and innocence is cut into pieces and transformed into pomegranate seeds by an adult. in the first part of the video , “produced” seeds of pomegranate are gradually access and accumulate, just as the plenitude of the seeds of the fruit that symbolize the fertility thereof.

in ancient greek, anatolia and north africa; breaking pomegranate in the thresholds of the houses increases fertility. Therefore, in the second part, the seeds are left in the thresholds of the houses by hoping with a childish optimism to bring fertility and well being to the lives of other people that we witness indirectly, of the sources of the voices from behind the doors. it symbolizes the belief in a common future idea is possible by touching the others’ lives from outside –here, door is the border- within the city.

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