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↓ I created this big quilt as a visual dialogue with my community, capturing my perspective on our town through my studio window. The quilt serves as a simple abstraction of Datça, with geology map-inspired patterns that intricately reflect the town's distinctive features. Each pattern is meticulously hand-painted using natural dyes.

Made between August and November 2023. Cotton and silk fabrics dyed with pomegranate peels, marigold flowers, mulberry and sumac leaves, lac’s secretion, cochineal bugs and madder root. Fully hand-stitched and hand-painted. 250x150cm.

↓ 'Postcards from Nowhere' quilt series transforms pastoral views and natural phenomena into a captivating visual experience. Inspired by geology maps, the intricate patterns delicately mirror the Earth's distinctive features. Every pattern is individually hand-painted with precision, using only natural dyes and all stitches are crafted by hand. This ensures not only a stunning visual impact but also a connection to the organic beauty of our planet.

The Eclipse, The Starry Night, The wind, respectively. Made between December 2023 and March 2024. Cotton and linen fabrics dyed with pomegranate peels, marigold flowers, mulberry and sumac leaves, lac’s secretion, cochineal bugs and madder root. Fully hand-stitched and hand-painted. 50x35cm.

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↓ In this series of various sized quilts I used the fabric pieces that have accumulated in my studio throughout the years of color-making, and sewed them together to preserve their original shapes. It was an experimental, and at times, exhausting process, as each piece has an irregular form. Even though it looked so ambiguous in the beginning, I was pleased with how the irregular pieces of fabric formed a cohesive whole. It was a solid practice of letting go of the urge to calculate and design all the time and just trusting the flow of the creative act.

The fabric scraps used in this piece are made of cotton, linen, and silk, and are naturally dyed with madder roots, pomegranate peels, mulberry leaves, acacia heartwood, lac, cochineal bugs, and many more. Quilts are made between September 2022 - March 2023 but the fabrics date back to 2017. Various sizes 109x97cm, 43x59cm, 37x40cm.

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↓ This series of quilted artworks are a combination of intuitively sketched graphic elements with fine crafting. It takes many days of focused hand work to draw, scale, cut and sew the patterns. I do all stitches by hand so that it becomes a ritual.

Helios

For a long time, I have believed that meaning is embedded in the fluidity. Just as summer and winter follow each other, changing at any moment; nothing stays the same and the change is the meaning, I was thinking. The instability of things oscillates between the poles of the circular paradox, and I untie myself, become particles suspended in the air; it was safer that way, I found an existential solution to myself.

However, the meaning is the intangible contradiction itself. Not being unable to remember how cold the winter was on a summer day or how hot it was in summer on a winter day; the inextricability of the connection between hot and cold is the meaning. The poles are summer and winter. They draw circles endlessly, turning into each other. They are constantly changing, but in fact they never change. Some things don't change.

Surrendering to the fluidity of things and surrendering to their balanced and stable unity are related, but different. Whereas instability is making you rootless, the whole grounds. The whole that is agitated by fluidity, and that is rooted only by rootlessness.

Helios, Summer and Winter, respectively. Made between May 3rd and June 3rd 2021. Dyed cotton with pomegranate peels, marigold flowers, mulberry leaves, lac’s secretion and Turkish pine bark. Fully hand-stitched. The waves are formed by following the curved lines between connecting spheres. ≈150x90cm
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“Embodiment of a purely intellectual apprehension was revealed in the orbists of stars, whose starting point and end goal were simultaneous, and this actualization was shared by the soul until it -broke the circle- to enter the rectilinear and contrary movements of generated life.” (from the neoplatonism of iamblichus by gregory shaw)

Made between December 13th 2020 and May 2nd 2021. Dyed cotton and linen with madder root, pomegranate peels, mulberry leaves, marigold flowers, lac’s secretion and acacia heartwood. Fully hand-stitched. Graphically, it is an experiment on curved and straight lines. ≈130x90cm.