Although my parents would try to make a calm and secure atmosphere every night, nightmares made good sleep impossible. One of my common nightmares was destruction of our home by a sizeable giant white origami rocket; the paper origami rockets that my father made for us moved from reality to dream. Fear shivered the whole of my body. I was nervous and hid under the blanket. In my childish imagination, I thought the white rocket was real. How could the blanket protect my family and our home? Childhood reminiscences, these experiences, have never left me and have strong effects on my adulthood.
Following stories of anxiety in refugees across several wars, the World Wars, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Syria and Iran war, having to watch the innocent children's immaculate faces were very painful. In my researches I also reviewed memories of children in holocaust to figure out remembrances to make a map of the same emotions. Analyzing destroyed buildings, ruined schools, covered windows, bullet holes on half-dead walls, life underground and fear of loss narrate a familiar story.
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