Daleel Al-Khrijeen دليل الخريجين | Hasan Kurd

Hasan Kurd

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A well-known mark of the beginning of civilization is when humans started to create tools. over time, these tools helped their creators achieve their goals and led to the development of more tools. My project seeks to focus on the cultural, material, and philosophical relationships between body and tool, culture and language, to deal with the tool’s symbolic and utilitarian functions. In the project, I question this historic connection by creating abstract tools and jewelry, examining the boundaries and transitions between the tool and body movements, between natural and artificial materials, between geometric and biomorphic forms, between the holder and what is being held, and more. I chose to focus on these questions by using manual and mechanical tools working in marble stone. The marble is a culturally and economically charged material analogical to the human body in terms of absorption, toughness, flexibility, and transparency. To me, these features of the marble make it a natural extension or a part of the body, and it has a simultaneous relationship with the space around it and before the eyes of the observer.