About this Project
This installation is incredibly personal for me, and is one of the few times I have asked somebody else to carry my personal emotions for an art project like this.
As a first generation immigrant, I constantly question what a true "home" actually means. I have come to realize that in many ways it is not a place I have spent the most time in, but rather a series of places I can remember more vividly than others.
The suspension experience doesn't just heighten your senses and expand your consciousness; it is a means to traversing inwards, and drawing up memories to a fully immersive sensory level.
Asking Will to imagine a Turkish coast, while enjoying a up of Turkish coffee with a cigarette, is not just an extension of my longing for old days, but an exercise in pushing another's imagination towards a window they have never looked through before.
