ARTIST STATEMENT
"To me, photography really means painting with light.
The things, surfaces and colours that surround me are not plain objects,
that I capture and depict,
but the palette from which I create my abstract paintings.
The spirit of the place, of the moment, becomes a living visual narrative."
Cool air and warm sunlight ... and secret things awaiting me. The objects around me seem to ask this world for vitality in order to comfort them.
I grab my camera and start to look at these seemingly meaningless surfaces and corners. It's like a wound that has been hidden inside of me for long. There is a reason to exist in this world and these objects are trying to tell me something that has been forgotten.
When I take photos, I practice finding meaning gradually and reflecting on why I am in this world.
When I take photos, I learn that there is joy in the secrets of the world around me.
We are all connected as spiritual beings through the collective unconscious. I want to discover the invisible beyond the visible for all of us. Therefore, in my daily life I try to look at things and people closely, to understand more and to empathize with them openly and without prejudice.
I think we are all guests who have come to this planet for a short time. This earth is like a mother who welcomes us ... As guests, we show interest, love and gratitude for all living beings who are here with us. We should live with compassion for one another. As an earth traveler, I believe that new ideas and new discoveries are possible in any environment that I can experience during my time on this planet. Based on these thoughts I occupy myself with photography, and with the desire to discover the longing beyond the invisible.
Discovery of spiritual curiosity through photography
This is the task that I set myself with my works and which I am faceing over and over again. A small section of a cracked wall, crumbling and full of weathered colors grows into a picture that can be more: A narrowing gorge? An aerial view of a canyon? The satellite image of a sea bay? I scale the object, and let the viewer fly, and discover parallels between the microcosm and the macrocosm, between the short life of a person and the long life of a planet. This mission runs through my entire work, regardless of motif, technique or format.
My vision: see small things, feel big things.
This is my promise to the viewers: I take them through my pictures on the same journey that I am on when my works are created: I find small, insignificant, hidden objects, filter and amplify them, detach them from their usual context, and bring them to a new, greater meaning. In a new format, turned into art and exhibited, these objects begin to stimulate and talk in an imaginative way. Seeing small things and feeling big things is like a spiritual added value, on an immaterial, mental level.
