Su Baskan

The bending within the layers of time… The elastic nature of time, the tension point between flatness and inversion, between presence and absence.

Light and shadow, being and nothing, feminine and masculine, the thread that waves past and future… A tribute to humanity’s collective memory .

“Arkhe” from the Ancient Greek, meaning origin, beginning, first principle. This work gestures toward a return to the most primal state of being: matter yet unshaped, still carrying the raw spontaneity of nature. Its roughened surface echoes the texture of the earth itself, while its hollow interior recalls the cosmos at the moment of creation. In this meeting of void and mass, absence and presence, a new wholeness quietly emerges. “Arkhe” whispers the first question: Where does everything begin ?

"Everlasting, not admitting destruction; granting an abode to all things having generation; itself apprehended with nonsensation, by a kind of unreliable reckoning; and looking toward which we dream and affirm that all that exists must be somewhere, occupying some Chora; and that which is neither on earth nor in the heavens is nothing.’’ This work is inspired by Plato, Timaeus 52a–b and by the continuous flow of the universe and the persistence of existence.

ll. Purgatory  O human race, born to soar upward, why do you fall at just a little wind? •Purgatorio XII, Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia•  This piece is inspired by the Purgatorio in Dante’s La Divina Commedia. A space of suspension, longing, and the soul’s confrontation with transformation. Formed in earth and fire, it embodies a moment between falling and rising.

It may appear as a solid object, yet there is always a subtle stir within. It carries the shape a thought or a feeling might take as it flows—unfinished, undefined. That is what gives it life. Panta Rhei is a place where imagination flows and form knows no boundaries. Sometimes it resembles the curve of a body, other times water folding into itself. It moves with your gaze, always seeming to shift. This is not merely an object. It is a state, a moment, a passage. Made to remain in the act of becoming, it exists without being fixed into a final shape. Its name, Panta Rhei, means “everything flows” a place where imagination moves freely.

“Me and the sands were burning slowly, like a pesüs.” Edip Cansever This form refuses to declare itself. It folds inward like a withheld breath, a shelter for what cannot be seen. It speaks not in matter, but in the shadows it cradles. Here, I tried to hold the moment when emptiness begins to gather meaning, when absence dares to shape a home.

Inspired by fossilized ant nests, this piece honors nature’s raw architecture. A hidden labyrinth of form and void, where structure and instinct meet in delicate balance.