I tell stories that want to live, and I give them a home where they can be.

Most of what I explore lives in the gap between what I feel and what I allow myself to name. Defense mechanisms, the weight of unfinished things, the unwilling negotiations I have with my own reflection—the corridors I keep returning to.

I teach at Yeditepe University in İstanbul—a city that insists on being looked at. What I do is an attempt to look back.