Teeth work as a device for understanding our interaction with the environment. They collect information throughout the years about the materials we ingest. One should imagine it similar to reading the rings in a tree’s trunk, and so, they have proved to be helpful tools in the field of archaeology.
In a recent series of works I present enlarged molars in ceramics as devices, as extensions of the body which displace the chewing motion out of it. Taking chewing as a primary form of understanding one’s surroundings. As some sort of reading.
In “milk teeth” the chewing point is set high up the room, pressing some roof tiles to the ceiling to depict a Turkish popular tradition. In the north of the country, as also in Greece, children are used to throwing their already fallen milk teeth to the rooftops of the houses. Wishing for the new teeth to grow as strong and robust as the structure of the house itself, this genuine gesture suggest for an unsettling view of (numerous) of this impermanent body piece when looking from above.