In Slates and Slits, Ayse Ulay calls upon the transitive attributes by eliciting the visual counterparts and their objective equivalents to extract new meanings.  

Slate is a metamorphic/ sedimentary type of rock composed of volcanic ash and clay, widely used for memorials and inscriptions, as its fine grain and hardness allows sharp details. On the other hand, waves as its dual nature has a changing, transportive quality and works both as a depository and corrosive force. 

On the overlapped imagery of the Slates and Slits, the diffraction of waves signal a fluidity of time, constant feed of "now". Its structural layer is positioned on top of the stationery structure of stacked up slate slabs in which the resilient sediments of time is held like an indirect memory repository. The assertive overlaid layer and further the psychical segregation of the image, creates a visual buffer zone, waiting for associations from the cached to fill in, transferring collective memory and its resonance.