digital mixed media by (c) eni turkeshi imagery
whole project here
The
story of Medusa and different legends and associations about her have
always intrigued me. I had first seen her sculpture in Istanbul, at
Yerebatan Cistern. The images in my series consist of self portraits
mixed in Photoshop with Turkish coffee patterns images. I had several
reasons to use those patterns. Firstly because visually it connotates
Medusa`s hair. Secondly,as many of us know the Turkish coffee patterns
are famous in fortune telling. If we look back at the story of Medusa,
she used to be a pretty girl with wonderful hair. After being cursed by
the goddess Athena, her fortune totally changed and her hair turned into
terrible snakes , while her face became incredibly ugly so each person
that would stare at her would get stoned. So I symbolized the coffee
patterns with the ways of destiny. At the same time Medusa is also known
as a symbol of nihilism and negotiation of many meaningful aspects of
life. The whole final imagery connotates not a very optimistic
determinism on facts we can`t change however we try to escape from them
and the final way we choose to live with it.
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