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late realisation. #claymen

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thank you @nolabistanbul for a wonderful experience. #claymen

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Come in peace and permeates the Turkish art scene by being a part of 'Made in Turkey' ideally 'Placed in Turkey'. While you look at us we look back at you and we have a heart-to-heart! #claymen #nolab (at Hasköy Yün İplik Fabrikası)

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opening today at 6pm! #claymen #nolab (at Hasköy Yün İplik Fabrikası)

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Black Molasses If I were to imagine the colour of my childhood, I can instantly say it was green. However green got replaced by black for most of my adult life and remains a predominant colour ever since. Most of us view the world today through our black screens and live a lot more in the digital space dealing with an overload of projected reality. I have felt trapped in the digital space for years. Professionally I am required to and for leisure I chose to. However, it got a lot worse and addictive with the advent of social media, It's a place for projecting a staged and self-promotional image of happiness and success for the most part. Which, I feel is so far removed from reality mostly. There is often a feeling of being lost, claustrophobia, anxiety by being stuck in what seems like thick black molasses, which is true for many people today. I have created a clay sculpture called 'lost in the black noise’ and some hand-moulded functional objects in black as a response for the upcoming exhibition theme 'the things are vanishing before us…”. Which, according to the curator is about digitisation of objects, information, and emotions and how they have irrevocably altered our existing ways of knowing, doing and being. The use of ceramics as a fragile material, seeks to evoke a sense of empathy, hinting at the fragility of the current human condition in a more general sense. Showing: 7-20 January 2017 State Art Gallery, Hyderabad #claymen #clayobjects #ceramics

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Black Molasses On display until the 20th of January 2016. State Gallery of Art, Hyderabad. Thanks @thepartialprofile curator for the experimental section of the show and thanks @varunika.saraf for your help with the installation. #claymen

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Tweedledum and Tweedledee! #Claymen #claysculptures #claymenobjects

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In the memory of Muffy! #Claymen #claymenobjects #claysculptures @bodicebodice

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deformed vase! #Claymen #functionalobjects #claymenobjects

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Peace for Paris! #peaceforparis

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'RELEASE' “There is nothing to fear but fear itself.” reveal, set free, let go, let out, liberate, discharge

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Clayhead

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The Tyranny of Perception

This is a mirror made of clay. These faces are our faces. Each face is an expression, a representation of an emotion, a signifier of judgement. But, these claymen are not merely the representations of expressions. This is about choice. 

The way we live our lives is often a response to the demands, expectations and expressions of others. Claymen takes these heads out of our heads. Perception is inevitable, but our responses are not. The Claymen say, “a face is just a face”. The way we choose to live, the friends we have, the places we go, the clothes we wear can be torn away from this tyranny of perception. So, let the claymen look at you, and use them to look at yourself.

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Conjoined minds!

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"Lost in the noise of all the vacuous idiots."

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Pointless beings