2016 - ETERNAL CYCLE: APPEAR, REGENERATE, DISAPPEAR

It is possible to come across the cult of mother goddess throughout history who is referred to by different names in quite a number of cultures and civilizations. Anatolia, Greece, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, North European countries, Far East countries, Japan, India, and Africa are among them.

Mother Goddess generally represents motherhood, reproduction, creation, femininity, continuity of life, fertility,and abundance. The mother goddess of Anatolia revives life and she has been associated with the birth of humanity as a whole along with the universe and everything in it.

Mother Goddess who had been effected humans from different cultures for thousands of years, was the starting point of this project. Three-dimensional felt objects and the embroidered motifs were inspired by mother goddess figurines. Three large felt objects symbolize the appearance, regeneration, and disappearance of women. Women maintain life and reproduce new generations as an individual and then they disappear.

Women/Mothers have sublimated as sacred creatures because of their gifted nature, unfortunately when they are reduced to a sex object , men humiliate women and commit violence against her.

Throughout the history men ruling societies have been going back and forth between these two extreme points. The enormous progress during the 20th century did not help to improve this situation.
Most probably male gods were much more powerful than the female goddess until the antique rationalism. However equality between man and woman has not been established literally in modern times.
The project aims to point out this unchanging situation and invites people to think about the problem with a new perspective while keeping in mind that how powerful creatures are women.