EMPTY TRACES is a work made as a series of traces filled with light, i.e. shadows, based on my experience of walking through urban space. The paths placed in the oblong format of the form of a scroll indicate duration, i.e. time. It is a play of light and their reflections. Crayons with golden pigments that show their reflection in exceptional positions contribute to the visual change.
Walking - moving through the city, according to Rebeka Solnit, exists as: "an unusual agreement between internal and external movement that hints that the mind is also a kind of landscape and that walking is a way of passing through that landscape". In the sense of both walking and exploring the mind, according to her, it means that "walking we travel in both directions".
In particular, the work is related to Paris - and to Walter Benjamin's book Passagenwerk (Project Arcades, 1927-40), which is an unfinished book about the life of Paris based on the culture of flânerie - idle walking and people-watching. To some extent, it is also a culture of carefreeness which is unattainable for most people today. Not only is it difficult to achieve, but carelessness is also immersed in the culture of intense consumption of modern technology, due to which the culture of flânerie, walking as a basic movement, as the basis of human nature, is abolished.
Just as Richard Long in his performance A Line Made by Walking (1967) highlighted in his own way the importance of that act in nature, with the work EMPTY TRACES I emphasize the importance of wandering through the city, moving with/along the light and creating as many inspired labyrinths immersed in our mental oases as possible. EMPTY TRACES are potential spaces that need to be conquered physically and above all intellectually and spiritually. Spaces with a changing character, but which acquire the identity of our presence if we are in them. If we are only in virtual space, the physical will relax and only light and nothing will remain.