Boundless Mutual Connection Trough Art featuring: Candy Colors over Destruction (Homs)
A tribute to children born at the other side of the border
Actually, every work of art is part of a larger view.
300 Unique paintings, expressing detail of ruins, each vibrating their own autonomic story.
Together they depict a totally destroyed city of Homs, serving as a foundation for a conceptual art project.
The artwork is titled ‘Candy Colors over Destruction’, a tribute to the many children that died and fled.
The works are distributed by issuance at various places and times, as an artistic approach of the refugee path, which is determined by the capriciousness of fate.
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Does this lead to some sense of collectivity and joint responsibility, with its own dynamic?
Will this artwork ever be reunited?
Does this lead to some sense of collectivity and joint responsibility, with its own dynamic?
A photograph of each participant with their acquired fragment, along with the exchange of email addresses, forms an essential part of this artistic exploration.
This website will function as a platform for mutual communication about the project.
Prof. Uğur Ümit Üngör
During the introduction of Boundless Mutual Connection Through Art on Mach 16, 2021, Uğur Ümit Üngör, a leading expert on Syria and professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, affiliated with the University of Amsterdam and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, delivered a live-streamed lecture at SBK Galerie.
Boundless Mutual Connection Trough Art is rooted not in political intent, but in a fundamental human response: empathy.
It is inspired by a shared sensitivity toward children born on the other side of borders, lives shaped by circumstances beyond their choosing.
The project seeks to create a space of connection, where distance dissolves and a universal sense of care and recognition can emerge through art.
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Participants
The participants of Boundless Mutual Connection Through Art carry the work far beyond the moment of its making. Candy Colors over Destruction, a tribute to the children of Homs, lives on through them fragmented into 300 pieces.
An Unexpected Connection
Three years later, while continuing my research, I came across an unexpected connection: Homs and Steve Jobs.
Though born in the United States, Jobs’ origins trace across continents. His biological father, Abdulfattah Jandali, came from Homs, while his mother had German roots. As young students, they made the difficult decision to place him for adoption, a beginning shaped by distance and circumstance, yet quietly connecting different worlds.
Within the context of my work, this discovery resonated as another reflection of how lives, histories, and identities are often formed across unseen lines of connection.