Tangible Design - Graduate Thesis Exhibition Grand Opening, Nov. 13

Hazar Nevzat Bayindir, a graduate student of CSULA who had his Graduate Thesis Exhibition in the Fine Arts Gallery at CSULA from November 13 through the 27th. The exhibition consisted of several different ways of using materials such as raw meat, water, clothing, furniture, and other everyday objects and re-uses them to create something else very common to us. Here is the work that i was the most intrigued by:

The first image is the letter N, created by a pile of clothing. The second and third are the letters E. The first made up of books in a bookcase, the second is a picture of arranged furniture that has been turned 90 degrees clockwise. The last image is of the letter D made up of items from a kitchen, spices, canned foods, etc. All together it spells the work NEED. This piece is open to many ways of perceiving it. At first I saw it as the bare essentials to what we need, but then I began to think that most of the stuff I saw is stuff that I do not need, nor even want. Then I began to put myself in the mind of the designer. I then thought maybe each letter is separate in interpretation, not necessary to the sum. The N to me is the need to take care of your personal hygiene (the need to pick up and do dirty laundry); the first E is the need to be educated, or the need to want to be educated, or even appear to be so; the second E is the need for comfort, and the fact that the image is sideways shows the difficulty to become comfortable; the D is for the need for nourishment, but the items chosen are not so much healthy or natural/organic options.