We, remember history through personal background or as a shared view of the public. We, in very personal context or as a collective memorize, revive, retranslate and present history as an emotional experience. Each individual is a creator and a storyteller of history.

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As passionate traveler, I have taken photographs of the abandoned shoes from diverse locations belonging to all walks of life. For me, shoes are very symbolical. Shoes are use in different moments and events by diverse people. History is a selective process- it chooses moments and events, and even people. These abandoned shoes are like records of past history of events, moments, cultures or a personal histories of an.individuals.

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Exhibiting individual photographs as a whole create a puzzle. A Puzzle is like a big picture made from little incoherent pieces. Looking into photographs allows the audience the possibility to create and interpret the historical facts recorded through it. According to each individual social, cultural, historical and political background they will read, identify and understand the photographs differently. At this process each individual is a creator and a storyteller of History.

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Exhibiting the photographs on the ground, allows people to walk over the photographs along the trail of the past. They leave new footprints on the record of past history. The audience consciously or unconsciously revisits, remodels, changes and erases its scenes; revive its echoes, of former days.

Projecting the live actions of the audience to existing art work on the ground represents an individual or a collective how we memorialize, re interpret and recount the history by the reflection of memory. The interaction with the art work makes the experience seem dense, multi-layered, complex, mesmerizing, and convincing to each seemingly-individual mind. The audience, who are living historians, freely interferes with this transition. The audience acts as an interpreter, assembler or the presenter of the past history.