Eda Taşlı

For the artist, art is a means of communication. The language she uses to establish this communication is wood, while the voice is embodied in her sculptures. Although her works present characters that seem to have emerged from the land of fairy tales, they are actually a reflection of the theater in her mind. These characters are all part of the universe in her mind, just like the world we live in. Certain small but essential things that deeply affect us in life take on a tragicomic form in her works. These stories share the same concept: we search for the ideal that we can never find, knowing very well that we can never reach that goal.
Herman Hesse once said, "What can I tell you that has value... perhaps I can tell you that you are in too much search, that your search makes it difficult for you to find what you are looking for." The artist's characters are constantly on a journey for this search and purpose, to the extent that the journey itself becomes their essence. They always want to take their suitcases and leave or simply wait. These four-fingered sculptures always have an innocent, curious, and bewildered expression on their faces. The vibrant colors they possess indicate that they always have hope and approach everything with a sense of joy. Even though the world may seem strange to them, they never lose their hope.