The discussion starts with the "animal". The outcast, the friendly companion; the one we fight, the one we kill, the one we take in to our homes. Then we go on with the questions: who do we fight, kill, love?
The truth is we are speciesists (Singer, 1975). We do make decisions always in favour of human species and our approach to animals is also established on their favor to us. So if we were to look into the matter of animals in cities, we would see that it is far more complicated than seeing the issue just as domesticated species living in the streets. Wild animal is by definition is the animal in its natural state that has not been domesticated. It is not domisticated thus they do not have any instinct or any reason to be favoring us human beings. They exist with their own rules, instincts and needs. They do sometimes bend our rules in order to survive. They find their way around our boundries, not out of a desire of destruction and greed but out of a desire of life, existence.
This collage work is a study of a border, a boundary dividing the city and the forest in Hacıosman. The forests in the city host the species "wild hog" and we often do not encounter with any hogs. However, sometimes in our human-made forests, hogs have a hard time finding any food. That is when they cross the border, that is when our worlds collide. Hog with elevated sensory organs gets lost between all the lights and sounds our city produces. Then they get scared. And then, they get agressive. This crossing of the border and collision of worlds is the starting point of this collage work. Right below Hacıosman, there are a lot of fisherman boats. Some still on the sea, and some retired on the land. This work proposes salvaging some parts of these retired boats and creating an intermediate world between species. The wall seperating the forest and the city disappears for a moment and the boat pieces which carry a burden of a whole other world, appear. Forms once splitting waves are now in a new world carrying seeds, plants, food for different species. The wall disappears but the border is still there. Invisible to the eye, border takes the shape of a valley that cannot be crossed.
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