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Mona 1-7,
Sonic automata
Berlin, 2025-26
Automata > Electric
powered wood action, founded objects, steel, polyurethanes,
polyester,
polystyrene,
and Nylon. (Automata's head drawings: ink on
acrylic)
Tent
Visions > Ink live-drawings and color
pencil improvisations on Bamboo-fiber, hand-made
paper
The Automata Series are regarded as
self-portraits—autobiographical objects
formed through extended periods spent with
my dog in dense forests and ecological
reserves. Immersion in these remote,
resonant landscapes was experienced as both
shelter and contemplation. In such isolated
environments, unseen presences were sensed
and pursued by my dog—an invisible activity
that is attempted to be reflected in the
Tent-Visions drawing series; there, an
effort is made to imagine and evoke the
world as it flickered through my dog’s
perception: a realm of subtle signals,
silent movements, and intuitions beyond
human sight.
The Monas are also connected to a long
lineage of mechanical embodiment—from early
automata devised between the 4th and 19th
centuries to emerging robotics. Across these
histories, the effort to mirror organic life
is shown to fall short, highlighting the
elusive complexity of living beings.
The automata are thus interpreted as
self-portraits—not probing the emotional
mind but revealing an internal architecture
of mechanisms and hypothetical systems.
Technology is fore grounded as the basis of
identity, and the shaping of inner worlds by
structural frameworks and experience is
implied.
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