I See You: First of all, I
perceive and identify your existence between others and then I understand you
and realise you entirely.
In my paintings “perceiving, identifying,
choosing, understanding and realising” happens in a frozen “moment”. To “see” means to enter the real life or the
existence of the person I paint.
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| Beauty, oil on canvas, 190x220 cm, 2013 |
For me, my paintings are little
notes that I take from life. These notes show us the moment we live. These
moments are usually the small fractions of time which we live and spent lightly
and sometimes recklessly. I chase those insignificant moments. I put them
forward and value them aesthetically. When
one comes up with a simple fragment of time, an unnecessary and unimportant
moment painted on a 2 metered canvas with such a great deal of importance, one
gets puzzled. Because it is conflicted with the things we’ve learned before;
the important things, the heroic subjects should be painted bigger; not a child
fooling around with the friends under the water. Why should a face staring at
us with a puzzled expression should be important? Or what is the importance of
painting a woman so unattractively but revealing the secrets of her soul in a
simple moment?
The mystery hidden in those
small fragments of time is everything for me. In those coincidental moments
everything about the “soul” reveals itself. I like to paint those
unintentionaly revealed moments as I am painting a landscape; a landscape of a
person…
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