Bubble Wrap

Bubble Wrap is based on the story of my father who is suffering from Bipolar disorder for over 40 years. Due to his mental illness I had a different understanding about him in my mind. It's also about how time plays dynamically around me and my parents.

Project Name : Bubble Wrap

Project text :

I’ve seen my father disappearing many times as a child. Then suddenly He would come back one day with attractive things like maps, books, binoculars, magazines and his face full of beard. I couldn’t recognise him.

It was unpredictable when he is going to play which character. His mental illness never helped me to understand him as person or as a father. My mind started creating a hollow gap for him.

I’ve seen my father laying down on bed for days. Then often he would  talk way too much which nobody understood. It was as if he was talking in his own head. I was carrying the fear that I may also become ill like him genetically at a point of my life.

As I’m getting older I’ve started to decode my father. Taking everyday medications and constant nurturing by my mother has made him more amiable. Now I can talk with him, listen to him much better than before. We go to travel together sometimes. This work is a way to ease my complications with my father and some scattered glimpses of the attempts to understand my father more as a person.