Above The Clouds
Series Statement
Above the Clouds explores memory, imagination, and the emotional landscapes that emerge between nature and perception. Through fluid watercolor forms, shifting colors, and atmospheric spaces, the series invites viewers into a contemplative realm where boundaries between reality and dream become increasingly porous.
Curatorial Text by Adnan Al Ahmad (Read More)
Above The Clouds
Freud once remarked:
“Art is the unifying field in which modern civilization preserves the absolute power of thought.”
The sky is neither blue, nor white, nor gray.
Because colors can transform into one another. They can coexist.
Little clouds are towels drying their droplets.
From the highest peaks of mountains,
the sky draws ever closer, and the mountains rise higher still.
Trees are female, motherly beings. Emerging from a bath of clouds, they become shelters for migrating birds, and soon will wear a garment woven from their presence.
When we dream, we are surrounded by symbols and meaningful forms that awaken a spiritual pleasure within us. These forms are built upon universal mysteries that confront us with countless questions: What are planets? How do they float in the vastness of space? Why does a snake become such a compelling image for love?
Do these galaxy-like forms that stimulate our imagination invite us on a sublime journey toward higher realms? Is this what artist Ayşe seeks to evoke?
This is an artistic narrative that searches for aesthetics within the tables contained in its own structure; a visual language in which compositional construction becomes an essential element in the formation of artistic concepts. Endless moments unfold through colors, lines, and points, creating a boundless harmony.
This harmony is the source of the work’s beauty. Independent and self-contained, it embarks on a journey toward its own artistic truth. It is a beauty that recalls the kinship of colors, balanced forms, and openings that extend toward distant horizons. Emotional resonance emerges through spaces filled with visual elements, where movement and stillness coexist in equilibrium.
In Ayşe’s visual universe, descriptive impressions infused with mystery emerge from a point where movement itself becomes the essence of existence. This is a genuinely dialectical relationship, enriched by an awareness of the environment and an invitation to engage with fundamental images.
The colors that arise naturally from within the work evoke distant associations. They push beyond visual boundaries, and the melodies of color offer the viewer a unique sensory experience. Like a composer writing harmonious notes, the artist brings rhythms and tones together in a visual space that invites discovery and opens new dimensions of perception.
Particularly striking are the beams of light that break free from between the clouds, reclaiming their freedom, like sunlight filtering through a glass ceiling into an interior space.
