DESERT

This series explores desolation through uninhabited spaces. While titles such as “My Father's Chair” and “My Room” point to personal memory, the images contain no figures; only spaces that have been left behind, abandoned, or are falling into ruin are visible. The emptiness inside confronts the view opening outwards.

These spaces are not a direct representation of loss; they are spatial traces of absence. An unused chair, the shadow of a wall, an open window, or an unfinished building convey not the presence of a person, but the silence they left behind. The space itself becomes the subject.

Here, desolation is not merely a physical void, but a space where the painter confronts the space itself. The paintings attempt to reveal the timelessness and fragility within the abandoned. The absence of the figure signifies both loss and the loneliness of the moment of creation.