Me, Father, Art & Stuff

The story begins in my parents’ apartment with the ordering of a bed frame and a mattress for the mamad room. After a two-week wait, the pieces finally arrived late in the evening on August 4 at 22:20. The next morning, the physical work began. I had to carefully lift the bed frame, which weighed about 35 pounds, to avoid dragging it and scratching the floor. The mattress, however, weighed about 55 pounds and proved too heavy to lift. I had to drag it across the room, but luckily its soft material ensured the floors remained undamaged.

During the assembly process, I needed to cut four zip-ties that were holding the frame’s legs in place so I could securely screw them in. As I cut them, I tossed the discarded zip-ties near the room’s entrance, intending to clean them up once the bed was fully put together. Somewhere during the middle or after the assembly, my father noticed the discarded ties on the floor. He picked them up, gathered them in a specific grip, and proudly held them up to show me—like declaring, “Voilà, a bouquet!”

Inspired by his spontaneous idea, I decided to preserve and execute his artistic vision, which is exactly what is displayed below:

Making video

Finito

Upper view

Ultimately, a different glass bottle was chosen for the final piece, and the artwork was later isolated from the living room background into a matching backdrop. This provides an impressive contrast that makes the artwork truly stand out—as can be seen in ‘Welcome/Prayer‘.

When I ordered a different product—let’s say a month before assembling the bed—I found an interesting piece of cardboard (an Internal support cardboard) while unpacking it and decided to keep it for some sort of cute AI-inspired creation. Ultimately, I just set it aside, and the idea (which hadn’t fully taken shape anyway) never materialized.

Sometime after the bed was assembled, while my parents and I were tidying up the apartment (mostly my parents), my father spotted the piece of cardboard and asked what I intended to do with it; I told him not to throw it away. Later, he decided to simply place the cardboard on the windowsill and hold it in place with a broom—without using glue or anything else, relying solely on the weight of the broom.

On August 6th, while we were watching TV, I asked him about that piece of cardboard, and he told me to look out onto the balcony. I saw something that resembled an owl—and, coincidentally, the National Geographic program we were watching at that very moment happened to be discussing owls. What a coincidence!

So, I photographed the owl my father created, and then I chose to generate an entire family using AI:

After that, I continued developing the concept to a majestic owl set against a celestial background – see: ‘Majestic Barn Owl (AI)‘.