Artist Statement

I am drawn to the moment when one thing becomes its opposite: comfort turns threatening, beauty reveals violence, and stillness begins to pulse with unrest. Contradiction is not a subject I impose on my work; it is the condition from which the work emerges.

My practice gives form to thoughts and emotions that resist language. Tapestry has become that language: a medium associated with warmth, comfort, domesticity, and decoration, yet capable of carrying hidden aggression, vulnerability, power, and unexpected intensity.

My works emerge from personal experiences, observations, frustrations, and questions. They explore what lies beneath the ordinary: beauty that conceals aggression, progress that creates exclusion, emptiness filled with life, and intact faces composed of shattered fragments. These tensions reflect the complexity of being human.

The process of making a tapestry is almost the opposite of the emotions that inspire it. While my mind moves quickly, weaving is repetitive, gradual, and grounding. The rhythm of repeated movements draws me into a state of flow, where time seems to stand still and the restless movement of thoughts gradually gives way to calm. Over countless hours, threads become images through deliberate movements, allowing intense emotional impulses to take physical form. I chose tapestry not despite its slowness, but because of it; its patience and continuity create stability within my restlessness.

In a world saturated with images, weaving offers a distinct visual and material language. I am not interested in textile merely as decoration, but in how far it can be pushed, how much emotional intensity it can carry, and how directly it can confront the viewer.

My tapestries do not attempt to explain me. They allow what exists within me to become visible. The greatest contradiction in my practice is that I use a slow, calming process to express an inner world that is anything but calm.