Resimde Bir İmge Olarak Kağıt
Özet
At the point of defining nature, the tree was used as a symbol and in this way; meanings
have been established through metaphors such as death/life, creation/destruction,
destruction/reconstruction. In the first part of the thesis, how the tree shapes perception
through these concepts and the social and biological reasons for the creation of these
meanings are examined. Within the scope of the paintings produced during the thesis, the
transformation of the tree into a wrinkled paper image takes its inspiration from its
destruction by cutting. Although cutting down the tree indicates destruction, producing it
as paper means reconstruction.
The fact that the paper, which has become the object of the industrial society, reinforces the
meaning of destruction through the act of crumpling in terms of the form used in the works,
by giving the impression of a piece of paper that is about to be thrown away, and the
meaning is re-established. The dialectic created by the image of wrinkled paper mentioned
in the second chapter is explained by establishing a cause and effect relationship. As it is
the subject of painting, which is a means of artistic expression, I revisit the image of
wrinkled paper by recirculating it within the framework of the production relation.
