The subject of my work is based on the dialogue between minds, thoughts, and desires of a person with the rules that have been internalized and also the outsider and limiting factors. In short, this dialogue is a dialogue which happens inside each person while he is deciding and acting in life. A dialogue between what a person thinks and believes and has chosen consciously with the elements that have been accumulate in her/his unconscious mind through socializing and experiencing; this is where a challenge starts to occur.
I have used five frames to show this dialogue which starts first as a forceful struggle with the traditional norms, collective beliefs, and social rules. The challenges which occur between these elements and the person’s mind, finally starts to reform from their limiting characteristics and changes to an internal unconscious form which remain as the selective identity of the person. In this level, the traditional elements neither can limit the person, nor are completely disappeared.
Dancing in order to create a harmony out of the discordant dialogue between what she feels inside and what comes to her from the world, the woman in the photos breaks free from the cage in which she is trapped yet does not lose the beauty that she finds in it. We all want to be true to our hearts, but we cannot forget the beauty and the wisdom that can be found in tradition and in culture. At the same time, we must not allow ourselves to feel trapped within it.
When you find yourself trapped—dance—spin, jump, stretch your arms out wide—and those societal rules and collective beliefs will sing together with the desires of your mind and your heart, and they will rejoice in person they have made.