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A Large skull rises from a bed of artificial flowers and leaves. Scattered skeletons blend into the foliage like quiet echoes of what once lived. Between the teeth of the skull, a delicate seahorse rests, fragile, trapped, unmoving.
This piece speaks to the impermanence of beauty and the way death can hold even the softest forms in stillness.

''Remains of Grace''

A child angel with a flute and a sleeping infant lie in stillness, surrounded by flowers and artificial growth. Above them, the surface is scorched black. Below, a glowing red hints at fire, heat, and ash. Among the petals, skeletal forms rest like memories of lives once rooted in the soil.

This work reflects the quiet horror beauty in decay, drawing from the ever-rising heat of our planet and the annual return of wildfires.
It is Earth, but not as we knew it.

''Infernal Bloom''

Toys, plants, and pigments frozen in plastic waves, sealed with spray paint.
This was also my first work with a more three-dimensional and layered structure.
Weapons, headless politicians, babies holding knives, and severed robot heads disappeared into the swamp-like layers of leaves.

''Layers of synthetic life''

This three-dimensional piece presents a playful and surreal train robbery scene. A large overturned train car becomes the stage for a giant bat and a winged dinosaur figure, creating a dramatic and strange focal point. The setting is filled with galloping horses and plastic plants and flowers, blending Western imagery with fantasy.

At the front of the train, a cowboy frog fires into the air while his quiet partner poses beside him. The Heist reflects on the idea of robbery through humor and exaggeration, turning violence into spectacle and mixing absurdity with decoration. The work is mostly black with vivid touches of pink, yellow, and orange that bring it to life.

''The Heist''

This assemblage brings together familiar faces of popular culture such as Batman, Joker, Wonder Woman and a toy chicken from Burger King, reimagined through layers of plastic and paint. Once vivid symbols of heroism and power, these figures lose their identities within a dark, textured surface, becoming faint silhouettes of their former selves.

Plastic Icons questions the presence and meaning of the heroes imposed on us since childhood. Through the fusion of paint, toys, and found materials, the work transforms nostalgic imagery into a quiet critique of consumer mythology. What remains are not heroes but plastic ghosts, fragments of a culture that worships its own illusions.

''Plastic Icons''

A figurine of a seated Mevlevi dervish, possibly caught in a moment of reflection or reading, found at a flea market and placed in a quiet natural setting.
Surrounded by flowers, branches, snail shells, a snake, a lizard, and a starfish.
This piece reflects belief as a way of being, moving beyond religious structures and shaped by silence, stillness, and nature’s presence.
The first in a series exploring spiritual forms through nature.

''Stillness in Nature''

Colorful depths hidden under thick white waves.
Sea creatures, shells I collected while diving, sunken sailboats, artificial plants-all fused, sealed, and gently touched by spray paint.

''Dreams Below''

This work constructs a grim and chaotic battlefield where no side is clearly defined. Plastic soldiers, tanks, and vehicles face each other in a tangled stand-off, aiming weapons in every direction while simultaneously trying to protect one another.
Warplanes, missiles, and makeshift trenches intensify the confusion, blurring the line between friend and foe.

The color palette shifts from the calmness of a seaside horizon into a violent, blood-red atmosphere, evoking the futility of combat and the absurdity of killing. Crossfire is not a glorification but a stark reminder of the emptiness and waste that conflict brings.

''Crossfire''

Cold-blooded creatures such as snakes, reptiles, and dinosaurs are shaped in warm yellows and soft pinks.
This work offers another glimpse into a world we once shared, now suspended in plastic.
Part of the dinosaur series, it reflects how life, even when distant in time or form, continues to echo through color, matter, and myth.

''Reptile Memory''

Twisted metal, broken signs, scattered limbs, remnants of machines and animals entangled in silence.

Crashed cars, toppled robots, lost warnings, all fused, frozen, and sealed in place.

''A wreck beneath the surface''

Fossilized violence in bloom.
A4 - 2025

Wrecked machines, flags, insects, and crawling forms entangled in synthetic growth.
A quiet aftermath, where war fades into vines.

''After the Collapse''

They were here before us.
Three dinosaurs tangled in plastic time, fighting beneath branches, beside broken cars.

What once was real now flickers like a forgotten dream.

"Fossil Games"