HOPE EAGLE
I started my art education in 2016 at BATMAN TOBB Fine Arts High School Painting Department. I continue my undergraduate education at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Painting Department as of 2021. My works focus on oil painting and traditional techniques as well as mixed techniques on original printing. While the relationship I establish with the material is shaped by the elements of process, layer and depth, I deeply question the visual and conceptual effects on the surface by adopting an experimental and investigative approach.
For me, painting is not a field, it is a state of being.
Neither the battle between light and shadows nor flashy scenes interest me. I speak more with silence, emptiness, and lightness.
I leave my figures in an abstract silence; they hang there on the edge of their own existence.
I work with a modern surface language. Rather than sharp details, I seek an intuitive uncertainty. Because for me, the essence of a person is not clear; it consists of layers that have been remembered, forgotten and remembered again. What I seek on the canvas is the sound of these layers.
My figures are still alone. But this loneliness is no longer dramatic, it is calm.
It's like being alone with oneself.
When I say returning home, I mean remembering the skin of a childhood memory again, or sensing a face lost in a dream…
Colors often appear as a whisper.
I am after touches, not feelings.
When I paint, I am not actually reconstructing a place, but a feeling.
Maybe it's not even remembering; it's passing through oblivion and coming into being again.