IIW 2023 Welded Art Book

SDG 2 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture

A key 2030 target of this SDG is to ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices which increase productivity and production, help maintain ecosystems, strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters, and which progressively improve land and soil quality. nExhibit “Digital cloud over summer housen n on the mulberry tree” n In the exhibit, the summer house on the tree is something which belongs to Nedim’s generation, growing up without computers and mobile phones in a social and cultural background which still nurtured relatively normal relationships with nature, meaning, the summer house represents the idealistic, nostalgic fairy-tale of the natural sustainability of prior generations. In general, the symbolism of a house should reflect security, protection, a safe zone, but that dream house and its properties and values are long gone

On the other hand, the digital cloud metaphorically stands for everything which is new: media, internet, satellite network over our planet and new technologies which are our only hope of balancing and saving, better preserving, and better handling of resources particularly related to food security, thus creating a better world for those living in conditions of malnutrition, poverty etc. Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) was used. Material thicknesses ranged from 1.6 mm to 2 mm thick steel sheet, 6.5 mm for the trunk with 3.5 mm diameter welding wire used as branches. Surface finish is a result of the heated colouration of the welding process and is protected by opaque transparent acrylic coating which gave the branches a bronze-like colouration. The tree trunk and the base were treated with Tannic acid for the effect of deep black coloration. nDimensions of exhibitn 52 cm high x 38 cm wide x 29 cm deep

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Welded Art PHOTOGRAPHIC Exhibition – IIW 2023 Digital Collection