SIMULACRUM

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Some images reflected on water, originally a part of the works of the Unreal Reality series, were found to have their own inherent beauty. A new series of work called Simulacrum was created with these images.

 

Where Greek  philosopher Plato saw two types of representation that mimic ideal ideas – faithful and intentionally distorted (simulacrum) - French social theorist Baudrillard sees four: (1) basic reflection of reality; (2) perversion of reality; (3) pretense of reality; and (4) simulacrum, which "bears no relation to any reality whatsoever”. 

 

Baudrillard argues that a simulacrum is not a copy of the real, but becomes truth in its own right: the hyperreal. According to Baudrillard, what the simulacrum copies either had no original or no longer has an original (think a copy of a copy without an original). *

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Simulacrum series consists of the images that are independent from the original and are beautiful by themselves.

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*. wikipedia