Sanctuary

Sanctuary statement:
We all live in closed boxes, in which no stranger may enter and no one can search the contents, except according to our wish and permission. There is a secret in each of these boxes, which can be discovered only if one enters it.

Sometimes even our closest person (neighbor, close friend, sister, etc.) may be quite unaware of the contents and what occurs inside the box.

Sometimes, when the events inside the box get more and more intense, the box becomes sealed further and quite unpredictable.

And this is the situation of violence affected homes. In domestic violence the perpetuator and the victim are both members of the same family.
In any violence the two sides are not alone and sometimes a third party or parties appear in the scene as observers.

This work tries to express what happens to the one who is present at the scene as observer.

The child who appears in this scene as a complete specta-lor endures great pressures to digest and understand the ongoing events, and in the child’s mind this pressure finds a way out from the interior, and “toilet” is exactly the in lended “sanctuary”.

A toilet made of second hand carton, which in addition to highlighting the instability of a child’s mind, tries to depict such events, which occur constantly and on a daily basis.
After entering and observing the scene, the light is turned off by the timer and the phosphoric crimson substance on the wash basin and toilet begins to glow, and this is the main damage to the little mind of a child, which is the outcome of presence as observer in the process of domestic violence.

(This scene is precisely my mental image, which I witnessed after each fight, and which I hear for more than 20 years).