The Acts of Keeping

Drawing is another way for me to communicate with my world, including my relationships with both my friends and my surroundings. Drawing my surroundings could be the carrier of our stories. I spend a lot of time observing and documenting the daily changes that gatherings bring to my place. While drawing plates, glasses and bottles, I’m remembering that each of them is connected to a person or a memory. I’m constantly recreating my past and present.

By working with color pencil, the different layers that are placed on top of each other, complement and complete each other. I think this process is very similar to the process of remembering: people, objects and the changes of my place are tangled in each other and each of them carries a part of the other.