
Odyssey
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This work is inspired by the monolith idea from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the film, the monolith is an unknown source of knowledge and consciousness that triggers breaking points in human history. Here, however, the black monolith hangs in the sky; it represents a threshold moment about to fall to the ground.
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The colorful and scattered geometric forms located in the lower section imply humanity's ignorant wandering on earth and life's complex, almost playful rhythm. Spatial tension is established between these two realms: the noisy existence below and the transformative knowledge approaching from above.
The monolith has not yet touched the ground. Change has not occurred, but it has become inevitable. The work establishes a metaphor for this very suspended moment, humanity waiting on the threshold of transformation.
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These works of mine are based on the initial perceptual trace left in the mind by brief glances directed at objects and landscapes. Instead of reproducing the detail of visual reality, I structure the silhouette, proportion and mass relationships that remain in memory through a suprematist and geometric language; the knowledge of proportion, rhythm, composition and spatial balance from my architectural education forms the formal backbone of this structure. Forms that appear abstract and fragmented at first glance often overlap with the viewer's primitive visual memory through house, landscape or everyday object silhouettes, establishing an unconsciously operating stream of consciousness; the fact that the lower layers evoke ground and vegetation cover, while the upper layers evoke sky and atmosphere supports this intuitive reading. This approach enables the viewer to form an involuntary connection with the work at conscious or unconscious levels, creating perceptual contact at first sight. Therefore, these paintings should be considered not merely as aesthetic abstractions, but as interdisciplinary plastic thought fields that investigate the relationship between perception, memory and form.