Morning at the Çinili Köşk

Oil on canvas, 100 × 150 cm, 2020

Set within the historical and cultural context of the Çinili Köşk, this work revisits the tradition of the official portrait. The wolf, associated in Turkic mythology with notions of origin and guidance, replaces the human face, shifting the narrative from individual representation toward collective memory. The architectural space functions not as a decorative backdrop but as a stage where cultural memory and symbolic meaning converge. Light articulates the relationship between figure and space, opening a sensory field through which an intuitive connection to the past emerges.