In Here’s Who I Am, I Am What You See, Ezzam Rahman delves into the metaphysics of presence whole-heartedly. The average human sheds approximately 1.6pounds of skin a year, and in doing so, leaves a miniscule trace of his non-presence across all the grounds he has traversed. In Here’s who I am, I am what you see, Rahman, fully aware of this trace presents to us delicate flowers made from the skin off the soles of his feet. Accumulated over a period of time, the dead skin which makes up the flowers are indicative of the grounds he has traversed and point to the confluence of both space and time which is necessary for the encountering of presence. Enclosed within bell jars in the gallery, the flowers serve as a constant signifier of Rahman’s persistent non-presence during the time that an individual explores his “garden”.
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