My childhood was the most lifeless times of my life, and it haunts me even today. Hostility towards my father psychologically impacted me and it causes me repeatedly wash my hands and constantly seeks shelter under the kitchen table. These childhood behaviors, in response to my traumas, have become the main source of inspiration of my work.
Feelings of powerlessness and shame are transmitted via repetitive actions such as binding, twisting, layering, concealing, gluing, and compressing in my sculptures. These forms are tightly and laboriously constructed only to be open in a process meant for personal healing, forgiveness, and redemption.
My sculpture is a medium that is labor-intensive and it challenges viewer through it physical proximity by natural confrontation. It is an appropriate method to express the complexities of human interplay and the autobiographical drama that is to spread out in my work. I mostly use media as varied as wood pieces, metals, waxes and rubber latex as well as found objects. All of these methods and materials are subjected to my desire and used to express my intimate feeling.
From the process of my work and the finished pieces, I am granted not only to recall my past but also to retake the fear that turns into physicality. Humiliation and despair become a tangible and manageable reality. My sculpture allows me to experience my past over and over until I see my unpleasant memory in its objective proportion.