Fiber fill, foam, fabric, thread, rope, glass dome, cork, epoxy, pigment, felt, speaker, seeds, alginate, plaster
47.24 x 74.80 x 47.24 inches | 120 x 190 x 120 cm
2026
Shelled Strawberry is an immersive sculpture shaped through encounters with friends, collaborators, and members of my community. I invited participants to my studio and made casts of their bellies, which became the seeds covering an oversized strawberry. Traces of individual bodies are brought together to form a collective structure built through trust and participation. Visitors can enter the strawberry and rest inside while listening to a heartbeat recorded during the Arnavutköy Strawberry performance. There, they encounter the seeds I carried over my heart for a month. Before leaving, each visitor may take a seed with growing instructions, extending the work beyond the gallery and transferring its care to another person. Combining a soft textile shell with an exposed metal framework, the sculpture is part shelter, part vessel, and part gathering space. It proposes protection not through isolation, but through shared responsibility and connection.