Painting & Sculpture
A space for color, texture, and intuition. My paintings and sculptures explore mood and movement through layered surfaces, shifting forms, and tactile details. Each piece aims to create a moment that feels both familiar and a little unexpected, inviting the viewer to slow down, look closely, and sense the rhythm within the work.
Memory Mosaic
The work mirrors the experience of living abroad for many years: the foundation of who I was slowly breaking apart, reshaping itself, and forming new patterns through exposure to different cultures, people, and ways of living. What emerges is not a loss, but a reconfiguration—an identity rebuilt from familiar pieces arranged in new, unexpected ways.
This piece begins with patterns inspired by traditional Turkish tiles—motifs I grew up around in Istanbul. After creating the designs on ceramic tiles, I broke them into fragments of different sizes, shuffled them, and reassembled them into a new composition. The cracks, edges, and shifting geometry reflect both disruption and continuity, held together under a smooth layer of resin that “freezes” the moment of transformation.
Between States
This diptych explores the shifting inner landscapes that shape a person’s emotional world. Through layered brushstrokes, scattered patterns, and drifting clusters of color, each painting reflects a different internal state—two sides that coexist rather than oppose each other. It’s not a simple contrast of happy and sad, but a deeper dialogue between moods, memories, and the quiet rhythms that move beneath the surface. Together, the pieces capture the feeling of being pulled in different directions yet still belonging to the same self.
Hatay Memorial
This project was created in response to the devastating earthquakes that struck southern Türkiye in February 2023, with Hatay being one of the regions hit the hardest. Through hand casting, I shaped hands reaching outward to represent the people trapped beneath the collapsed buildings—the hands that tried to escape but couldn’t.
The process of molding and forming each cast was emotional and intentional, using materials that capture the tension between fragility and strength. The work stands as a quiet reminder of the lives affected and the moments that were frozen in time when the earthquake hit.
Familiar Reflections
This collaborative piece brings together the voices of university students reflecting on their hopes and uncertainties about the future. Each person wrote down thoughts about life after graduation—career questions, personal goals, and the quiet worries that surface in your early twenties.
These reflections were written onto a mirror to emphasize self-reflection, then layered with paint and resin to create a soft, dreamy blur. As viewers approach the work, they can read fragments of these concerns while faintly seeing their own reflection behind them, inviting a moment of connection with the universal fears and possibilities that shape the transition into adulthood.
