about

I am a Turkish American abstract painter working with thick layers of acrylic that I carve into with a blade. The lines in my work are not drawn but cut, removed through pressure, hesitation, and impulse. This subtractive process leaves behind a physical record of decision making rather than a planned image.

My practice sits at the intersection of instinct and control. While much contemporary abstraction leans toward the digital, the vectorized, or the engineered, my work insists on the human hand, uneven, emotional, and resistant to perfection. The surfaces hold tension between chaos and calm, density and restraint, mirroring the internal states that shape how we perceive the world.

I am interested in how viewers respond intuitively to these differences. The piece someone gravitates toward often reflects their mental state, emotional rhythm, or outlook in a given moment. Some works offer quiet and space, others feel compressed or unsettled. None are neutral.

Influenced by my experience navigating dual cultural identities, the work reflects a constant negotiation between structure and freedom, permanence and interruption. Each painting becomes a psychological landscape, less an image to decode than a surface to feel.