Artist Statement

My practice investigates the unpredictable nature of human beings and life itself. I explore change, impermanence, conflict, self-doubt, knowing, and unlearning, tensions that shape individual experiences. My perspective as a woman, mother, geoscientist, and Turkish Canadian informs my work's emotional and conceptual framework. Each of my pieces emerges as an open-ended inquiry, creating room for vulnerability, reflection, and ambiguity.

My work grows out of a life shaped by movement across cultures, landscapes, disciplines, and belief systems. These are experiences I have lived, witnessed, absorbed, and later reconsidered. I approach existence through curiosity rather than conclusions. Why does anything unfold the way it does? How do matter, time, memory, decisions, emotions, and transformation shape our sense of what is present? These inquiries may never settle into certainty, yet they continue to pull me in. Art becomes the way I respond to everything around me and within me: the territory I studied through science, the emotional layers I live as a person, and the subtle movements that pass through my mind and heart.

I build my art from observations, tensions, moments of confusion, and the ways things reveal themselves differently over time. Each piece develops its own direction as I move through it. Anything can enter the process, thoughts, natural patterns, or brief moments that hold my attention without warning. I reshape these into abstract forms.

I work with whatever resources are available, including traditional or modern studio tools, everyday objects, or things found between places. Each one brings its own pace and difficulty, opening pathways I never expected. My practice is supported by a wide range of ideas, such as nature, the human condition, rhythm, and the many ways people create meaning. I am drawn to points where different ways of seeing meet or oppose each other. These crossings allow me to approach my explorations from angles I would not reach otherwise.

Painting and drawing are my primary languages at the moment, with collage and writing entering occasionally. Writing helps me trace changes in thought, name tensions I have not settled, and recognize what each piece asks of me. My approach remains open and responsive, letting each work guide the one that follows.

Everything I create is part of an ongoing attempt to perceive and process presence itself. I continue to make art because looking, asking, and responding are the only ways I know to live within the complexity of existence. Firm conclusions may never arrive, and I see no need for them. Even when answers appear, agreement is rare. What remains is my response and the uncertainty that continues to shape it.