A flying elephant lands on a suspension bridge and throws a red ball at me; a man with an alligator skin box full of gum; a trunked monkey lady with a stage in her palm where midgets put on shows… Using personal experience, dreams, imagination, Turkish culture and language, I strive to recreate my memories through a fantastical lens that juxtaposes real life situations with ephemeral imagined incidents. I juxtapose these different aspects in my visual work, sound pieces and writing. My videos and my mixed media works on paper contain many layers of seemingly unrelated objects to create a magical reality. My stories and sound pieces combine this method with direct translations of Turkish sayings and pure Turkish immersed in English...

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