The human body receives sensory information via five organs: the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin. However, every person has one that they feel connected to the most. One can be more sensitive to noise as another to smell. For me, it was always sight.
Since the days I started exploring my creative side, I slowly noticed that I was influenced by what I saw around me. My classmates would talk about how the texture of a fabric inspired them to paint, or that the sound of the Bosphorus led them to create music, but I constantly struggled to find only one source of inspiration. It was only last year when I realized what I tried and wanted to portray through my work: to display what we see on a daily basis in a sort of different dimension. As if it was something that we have never seen before, that needed to be analyzed to its core.
Right when I started my curiosity journal, I took a picture of a poster for an exhibition about texture and light. I remember taking it just because I was interested by the gallery, and not because I wanted to put it in my journal. But as I was looking through my camera roll, I realized that on it, was a reflection of a neon sign, that was most probably in front of the glass frame of the poster, but that I haven’t noticed before. The next day I went back to the place I took it and turned around to see a store I haven’t seen, or most likely not given attention to, even if it was on a street I passed every day.
Now, every time I look back at the picture, I smile, because unconsciously, I created within myself the feeling of rediscovery of my daily life.
the image of the poster
