Kinetic Sculpture
2017-2020
Resin, baklava, chrome suspension pipe and spring, DC motor, Raspberry Pi, cable
160x100x5cm
Baklava consists of baklavas encapsulated in individual blocks of resin, constructing a kinetic installation carpet that gives the impression of flying towards the future. The baklavas on the side of the end in the the air are rotten, while the fixed part of the carpet has been formulated to not deteriorate. Flying baklava carpet offers a speculative fabulation that o ers a belonging at once to various histories and geographies, inviting us to imagine counter-narrations to the existing myths. Using society's collective memory expressed in this baklava motif, the work asks what mythologies we are bringing to our future culturally and socially.