Hello!
This is my first post, so I thought I'd start with my artist's statement. Here goes: " My paintings are like a film or a book whose content you cannot correctly recall yet whose feeling you distinctly remember. This is true for all three themes around which my work revolves: abstract, Turkish puppet theater and my autobiography. I explore sociopolitical issues through two puppet characters from Turkish theater. Hacivat who if not always illiterate remains ignorant and has a predilection for get rich quick schemes, and Karagöz who mercilessly belittles him with his education. As for my autobiographical works, I use historical events as a backdrop because whether or not we are direct participants they affect how we live. I work in oils, acrylic, gouache, ink and with photographs. I might do a rough sketch but I prefer to go directly to the medium of my choice and work out my ideas. For me creating is an interactive process; the marks I make feed back. If what I’m doing ...