Photographs from the series 'Sphere', 2023
archival pigment print, 100x135 cm
SPHERE
Photographs, 2023
At the center of the photography series 'Sphere' is a blue spherical sculpture that I took on a journey, placing it among the new landscapes I discovered. In this project, I examined and documented the landscapes created in the interplay between the blue sculpture and the arid desert terrain, where the natural light transformed the scenery each day in unique and varied ways.
In its abnormality, the sphere situated in the landscapes provides a stimulating experience that allows the observers to reexamine what they are accustomed to seeing, possibly attributing various meaning to the various scenes. Their encounter with the landscape invites an examination of color, form, texture and their interactive effect.
With its symmetrical shape, smooth texture, and artificial material, the sphere contrasts sharply with the natural desert, emphasizing its yellow and brown hues, texture, and materiality. The blue color of the sphere evokes an association of water, highlighting the desert's aridity. While resembling the sky, the sphere also suggests a celestial realm, adding to its otherworldly quality as an object from another dimension.
From a personal point of view, I like to see the sphere as a soul wandering around the earth, perhaps searching, perhaps wandering. This idea bring to mind common human feelings such as the sense of separateness, foreignness and lack of belonging and at the same time a sense of exploration of the new.
The immediate sense of foreignness between the sphere and the desert changes when one takes a trip outside the frame – to a distant point of view located in outer space; From this viewpoint, the dry desert landscape also appears to be a sphere: part of the face of the earth- an oval-shaped spherical object, which is mostly blue in color.