Texts I Received, 2025
exhibited at ‘Zilberman Gallery, YFD Exhibition”, Istanbul
Cast aluminium, rasberry pi, screen, 2025
Whatsapp screen recording, 0.59min, loop
Again i couldn't control everything
0.30
It choosed the way it like
0.30
I fired it up (the furnace)
10.26
Just as I was hopelessly going to change the torch
head, I saw that it had started melting five min earlier
10.59
Time to pour the 2. One
12.41
12.37 I fired it up, I bought harder aluminiums from
Uncle Yakup, like car wheels, will see
12.52
I melted soooo much
13.55
I think im gonne cast it in 15 min
13.55
It's been exactly two hours that I'm still struggling with
the 2. casting
19.03
If the mold isn’t good
I would've definetely given up
19.03
With the airgun attached and the profile pulled back,
19.04
It caught fire nicely in 5 min, melting the frozen areas
19.04
It's still melting
20.39
I'm sitting on the black chickpea sacks
20.56
drinking tea
20.56
about to pour the 2. mold
20.56
The pot finally filled up
20.56
A lot of slag came out, im melting down some more
21.14
I got home
21.57
Watching the kombucha, aluminum, and myself
22.17
I thought I could do anything just because i wanted to
22.17
And i struggled to hold back my tears at sunday
breakfast
22.17
I've been working on this for a week
22.17
My furnace and me