This thesis asks these questions: "What is the origin of form?" "Where and how was the first form invented?" "What kind of story does it unfold?"
The Surviving Image touches upon how survival is shaped by ancient nodes, anachronisms, and present and future trends of a period despite the difficulty of surviving.
Just like a dynamo, images have vitality and energy. They open a world in which selves are to be seen. Stories and words have etymologies, just like images have lines and layers. Behind every image and word is wealth.
Like our imagination full of stories and ideas, images are immigrants, nomads, who knows no boundaries.
One of the unique formulations of Aby Warburg's right before his death in 1929 is that he described the type of images he followed as ghost stories for grown-ups. However, whose ghosts are those? And when and where do they come from? All the fascinating texts on the portrait of archaeological sensitivity and low empathy suggest that those ghosts are a matter of survival after death. Today we can read the traces of spirits on earth by using the definition of a biomorphic evolution model. We develop through dialogues and performances by coming together imaginatively with many artists, thinkers, writers, and characters who existed in different periods of time.
Time goes back as one remembers and blends images, sounds, and forms with memories and rewrites them. The more memories, the stronger the memory. As the doors of the closed rooms unveil, more of the things we had thrown into the cellar are revealed.
Wherever we go, our experience follows us. Our past is like a sky we cannot leave.
The New "ghost stories" are no longer about imagining, "seeing something when in fact there is nothing," but rather about perceiving the survival of images as a perceptive conscience, in a sense meant for justice. Ghosts are among us.
For millions of years, people have confronted numerous challenging questions in their quest for justice and meaning. They have spent a significant part of their existence defining themselves and their universe. People have used vague concepts to explain the systematics of all the interactions and control the mechanisms that govern their attitudes and behaviors.
People have used current findings to discover the main characteristics that allow them to live in harmony with other living things and to find answers to mysterious questions such as memory, identity, origin, physiological and emotional connections, and the afterlife. The more knowledge they have, the more aware they become aware. They have gone beyond their time, asked questions about their origins and the future, and come up with possibilities.
To create artworks, they have used abstractions such as the universe of perfect ideals, exchanged shadows, metamorphosis, living or dead ghosts, mythological beings, images, icons, relics, sacred body parts, tragedies, the spiral of life, and death of Eros and Thanatos, the painful and alarming unrest of existing and destroyed civilizations. This has kept memory alive and dynamic despite the efforts of the authorities to make people forget. Artworks have triggered a memory, invited us into the flowing time, and turned us into witnesses and victims of experiences.
Art has opened the door to the unknown beyond the tragedies of everyday life and ordinary realities, taking the burden off of large masses. Art is a therapeutic means of unearthing the elements that people push into their subconscious. By transferring the experiences of the social traumas in the depth of the rich storage warehouses to the future, it has provided foresight to humanity. Through the foresight of imagination, they have enabled us to reshape these experiences and perceptions that make tomorrow possible.
Artists can turn individual and collective problems into the reason behind creating their works of art. Artists embody the experiences leaking from the depths of time and to enable a transition from the past into the future. Through introspection, it shows other connections playing a role in making our identity visible. Art helps us find answers to questions about what we are and will become.
The main idea of my thesis is to transfer the memories accumulated by human beings to cosmic time through our memory. Under imagination, some of our bad memories can be replaced by those worth remembering. This study highlights the importance of keeping the memory alive as a compensation mechanism.
Narrative and art are indispensable parts of the adventure of humanity; they reveal the connections with predecessors and recipients in the future. In this study, I analyzed my works on art and narrative, which I define as the organizer of our personal and collective memory, with multidisciplinary approaches.