Artist Statement
We are living in a universe made from billions of galaxies. As Carl Sagan said: “Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost between two spiral arms in the outskirts of a galaxy, tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.” From that perspective, the earth is nothing, yet humans still think that they are so important.
They fight with each other’s and for that, they create a dictatorship role play which is exactly like a child’s play. To fulfil their stupidity, they create a dangerous toy; Bombs. They are Bomb creators.
With this series, I venture to portrait recent dictators of the middle east which is my origin and ethnicity and I present them as babies. I create babies with alphabet cube toy heads which are playing with some dangerous toys. By doing this, I want the audience to think that maybe the dictator’s heads are toys for something or someone else.
I create a wall full of imaginative illustrations to represent children’s first sketchbooks which are walls. I draw more sub-stories and related narratives mostly around those dictators in the background.
Thousands of thousands of lives had been taken and the remaining human in their society must live in full fear every day because their leaders just care about their play. And they still create bombs and kill more and more innocents. Only one thing came to my mind when I observe this, Evil and darkness.
I hope someday the world of dictatorship will end and there will be no more fighting over nothing.
I hope that…