A dense tapestry of symbols unfolds like a childhood map scarred by war, where nostalgia, complexity, and memory collide in quiet resistance against forgetting.

 

Diary – A Map of Memory

2019-2020, 100×70 cm, ink on paper 
 

A dense fabric of symbols unfolds before the eye like a childhood map engraved with the tattoo of war, where lines and paths intersect in a maze-like formation, and geometric shapes intertwine with fragments of images and personal icons, as if an inner archive were retelling fragmented stories. In this maze, echoes of nostalgia trace winding lines in search of an exit, while visual complexity wraps around memory as a silent act of resistance against forgetting.
Here, time does not flow in a straight line but branches into different stages of life — from childhood, filled with wonder and fear, through the ambiguity of adolescence, to the maturity that carries the weight of experience. In each stage, the search for survival takes a new form: sometimes a temporary refuge in a happy memory, and at other times a difficult attempt to mend what has been broken.
Human relationships sit alongside symbols of nostalgia and the experience of exile in a silent dialogue, where lost homes meet unknown roads, and dense shadows are pierced by fleeting flashes of light — as if the artwork were grasping at the threads of a slowly eroding memory and trying to weave them anew. In this symbolic map, each element becomes a signpost, and each repetition of a form an invitation to continue searching, even in the deepest turns of the maze.