Photo by Neslihan Koyuncu
My artistic practice is based on photography, video, and installation. I explore cosmic awareness, coexistence, and connection, inspired by my nature walks through image making. Seeing life as the continuous exploration of the self, I investigate the human experience through forms and abstractions from nature. My subjects are often the thresholds, dualities, and cycles of life.
I collect and connect images by different methods, such as cutting, mixing, deconstructing, and reordering. I work with various mediums, such as cyanotype and moving images. The playfulness and controlled random outcomes in my practice reference the behavior of nature and its system. As a female photographer and an immigrant, I see intuitive cutting and collaging gestures as a freeing approach against a photographic apparatus's systematic and controlled environment without borders, expectations, and limitations. These visual explorations are to understand how I am connected to the world as a woman and an immigrant and how one perceives the concept of connectedness through nature.