WORKS

The Journey Series
Yolculuk Serisi
(2023-2026)
“The Journey” series aims to make visible not a physical movement, but the journey a person undertakes within their own inner world. In this context, the journey ceases to be a linear action taking place between a starting point and a destination; it becomes a metaphor for the relationship the individual forms with their memory, fears, hopes, and sense of self. The roads, bridges, mist-shrouded spaces, and vast landscapes featured in the series represent the human inner landscape rather than the objective reality of the external world. They emerge as conceptual spaces spanning the past and the future, belonging and alienation, and remembering and forgetting. The figures often appear small and solitary within these vast spaces. Yet this very situation, in Bachelard’s words, reveals the boundlessness of the individual’s inner world.

Daydream Series
Gündüz Düşü Serisi
(2019-2026)
The “Daydream” series aims to create a poetic visual realm that traverses the boundaries of the visible world, spanning the realms of dream and reality, existence and nonexistence, and the conscious and the unconscious. Unlike dreams experienced during sleep, daydreams allow the individual, while fully conscious and without completely disconnecting from reality, to wander among other possibilities, fantasies, and memories. For this reason, daydreams are approached not as a form of escape, but as a space for reflection, reinterpretation, and developing self-awareness. Created using a photorealistic narrative style, these works meticulously reconstruct the details of the visible world while simultaneously exploring the psychological and existential layers underlying that reality. As the proximity to reality increases, the influence of the imaginary also grows stronger, and the viewer, while looking at a familiar world, simultaneously encounters another reality that lies beyond it. The twilight atmosphere frequently employed in the series is one of the key elements that amplifies this effect. Belonging neither entirely to day nor entirely to night, this time frame creates a space of experience where certainties dissolve and meanings multiply. Thus, the places depicted in the works come to belong not to a specific geography but to the individual’s inner landscape. The figures in the works are often alone. Their positions and body language represent the unsettling moment between leaving and staying, belonging and alienation, remembering and forgetting, and the conscious and the unconscious. Thus, rather than presenting the viewer with a specific narrative, the works invite them to reflect on their own inner narratives.

Somewhere in Between Series
Arada Bir Yerde Serisi
(2020)
The “Somewhere in Between” series explores the state of liminality in an individual’s life and the fragility of identity and the sense of belonging. The spaces featured in the series appear, at first glance, to be everyday and familiar. However, this ordinariness is transformed through the use of dramatic lighting, atmospheric interventions, and relationships of scale, revealing not so much the physical reality of the external world as the emotional climate of the inner world. Gaston Bachelard’s thoughts on the poetry of space play a significant role in the conceptual backdrop of this series. In particular, the image of the roof much like the imaginary spaces Bachelard describes represents the boundary between the sheltered and the unknown. The figures positioned on the roof are neither entirely inside nor outside; they belong neither to the earth nor to the sky. This positioning symbolizes the state of liminality experienced by the individual throughout life, their search for belonging, and their transformations of identity. As an intermediate space bridging the inside and the outside, security and the unknown, and everyday life and the realm of the imagination, the roof transforms into a quiet platform where the individual questions their own existence.
