“Remember” is a kind of abacus which has been created in pandemic period. In a group work whose theme was “Experience Beads”, my way of expression was to touch on experiences, feelings and thoughts related pandemic through numbers and marks. Daily routines, relationships, life, health and much more things were being redefined and each of us like a child who was just learning to count or to read in the face of this situation. This image was my starting point to create an abacus which points to direct or indirect experiences related pandemic that equalized all of us with a common concern.Handmade silver hollow beads with numbers and marks are the symbols of my own experiences on one hand and reminders that make the viewers think about their own experiences on the other hand. In this way, they create a common language.This work that referring to the conditions created by the pandemic period which we all have been experienced the same fact in different or similar way depending our own conditions is also open to the different readings in accordance with the own feelings and thoughts of the viewers.Although every bead is the same, numbers and marks make beads different from each other. Every mark and number has different meaning regarding the pandemic and mentions some specific concepts such as social distance, masks, vaccine, uncertainty, quarantine, deaths, new normal, government policies and system criticism.Handmade circle shaped wooden frame contains all experiences in itself, it is possible to see that as a symbol of the period specifically or life in a broad sense. From this point of view the frame reminds that we are all part of the same whole and emphasizes the meaningful bond that established by the similarities and differences.The concepts mentioned by the pieces, which complement each other with the numbers and marks on the moving beads and which I can describe as object as well as wearable.
