I envy children the act of making sense of and defining everything they see and experience, before a parent can define it. This act, which is extremely raw and subjective, has a very important mission in my opinion. The "childish gaze" has been the mode of production that most artists have pursued throughout history. We know that children make sense of all the forms and images they see and experience according to their own unique perceptions. An object whose meaning and form is absolute for an adult individual may turn into an undefined object that will lead to thousands of images for a child. These processes of "nonsense at will" that ignore absolutes are like the foundation of the unique individual. And this process probably points to the fact that in this period of the most intense alienation from oneself, authenticity is not something that can be bought, but something that is already within oneself and can be discovered through labor.
Every individual entering adulthood is confronted with the biggest question of history; "who am I?" In this process that forms our identity and leads us to our choices, we shape ourselves within the dynamics of the society and system we are in. So how human is this? It is considered a luxury for an individual going through such a process to think about "who am I". People who are "tourists" even in their own lives and who exist by pretending in the society they live in are in desperate exhaustion and consumption.
I believe that one can get out of these absolutized meanings and identities with a childish look, like a return to the source. I believe that there is a place that is exempt from time and all absolutes, a place that is not consumed and exhausted.
People who have been marginalized and made to pay a price for not adapting to the order they live in...