Cast of Lines
For Nature and State, t. watercolor and ink on thermal receipt roll, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
"Cast of Lines" is a drawing experience on thermal paper rolls that are used as payment receipts. This type of paper is used every day in every capitalist exchange as a document of the transaction, and like water, it flows around us. Just considering the amount of paper spent on every shopping, purchase, and money exchange, occurring every day, every hour, and every second, these rolls become an ironic metaphor for the hyper-capitalist economy. Along with the choice of paper, the installation is also based on a slow observation of memories of happy marriages; such as the happy couple posing along riverbanks and bridges, followed by the child who crowns the institution, and all the expenditures that come with it on the red strip. The blue strips consist of improvised brush lines depicting one of the biggest issues of the crypto age, the rapidly drying up water resources.
Heartful thanks for the photos to dear Mehtap Baydu