Title: Seek Refuge 8.4

Year: 2024

Media: Chlorella, spirulina and turmeric powders mixed with earth pigments and hand sewn cotton threads on cotton canvas.

Size: 25 x 20 x 1.5 cm

About the work: Each canvas in this series depicts the places where refugees have to take shelter in the countries they fled. Earth pigments, natural dyers, and botanical inks on the works represent their homes, their lives, which they are trying to build from scratch with minimal means. Each of the canvases has a section consciously cut out. Know that through these cuts, hope enters. The way the cuts are tied together with threads, slowly and patiently, symbolizes the new life they are trying to build with determination. By each stitch, they are laying the groundwork for the new life they are trying to build in a completely different country.

Bio: A. Sirin Budak is an eco-artist born in Istanbul, Turkiye in 1986. She currently resides and works in her home studio in Long Island, New York.