The Turkish sculptor Hakan Singunol expresses a state of human communication through his work at the Aswan International Symposium for Granite Sculpture, and he describes the work that he gave the name 'The Eternal" as embodying the fixed state of human existence across all eras, by shaping a piece of granite into an abstract sculptural work that summarizes that state connected to the idea of existence and survival.

The Turkish artist says that the work presents an open form, through which every person can find a meaning that is specific to him, or something that touches his feelings and memories. The two main forms rising upward express a state of communication between two people standing side by side, and at the same time the masses appear as if they were one human body. The forms draw close to one another without fully merging, while this represents a balance between the human desire for sharing and merging, and his independent individual position

Hakan points to the voids existing at the heart of the work, which symbolize incompleteness, questioning, and searching within the human self, while forming a contrast between the solidity of stone and the lightness of the void. Through its simple and natural surface, the work creates a sense of absolute timelessness, without embodying a specific person or event.

Hakan Singunol is a professional visual artist. He studied the arts at the Sivas Industrial Vocational Secondary School during the period between 1996 and 1999, and completed his studies at Cumhuriyet University in 2011. He also joined Atatiirk University, and participated in many design and sculpture workshops in many countries around the world.