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This is the work that I exhibited at First Youth Action in Ankara. The place that I exhibited my work was a public park, Kugulu Park, where people sits or walks through throughout the daytime. The most characteristics trait of this place is its pond with swans and the ducks. The swans in this park cannot leave that place and should spend their whole life there because they cannot fly. In order to prevent them to escape, some crucial feathers of swans’ wings pluck with an operation. In other words, they cannot immigrate to another place. So the idea that people see/watch the whole life of these animals make me to show a process that also includes an in-between situation, between life and death.
In making this work, I first collected swan feathers from the park and then I made a little wooden coffin without its top cover plate. Then, I covered this empty coffin in the form of a boat with swan feather. I left it to the pond in ‘Kugulu Park” to float freely among the swans and the ducks. As the coffin traveled in the pond with swans, it started to be a part of the life and death of swans at the same time. When it was floating it was life and what it symbolizes was death. As a site-specific work, it was in-between the life and death of swans for the swans are confined to death in the park throughout their life.