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Oslo Tengai I Painting

Filiz Soyak

United States

Painting, Acrylic on Wood

Size: 39 W x 39 H x 2 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

I am a frequent traveler and enjoy exploring new places. I especially like trains. Seeing the landscape stream by in a blur of colors and textures offers endless inspiration and compositions. This painting was inspired by a trip to Oslo, Norway, and a train ride into the city from the surrounding country side. Oslo is a beautiful city, embodying Scandinavian design in its clean architectural lines and combinations of wood, cement, stone, water, landscape, steel and sky. For the first time, I used found objects, including wood and burlap, in addition to metal (steel and copper nails) to capture the composition and textures I encountered. And the repetitive pattern element continues from my last series, in a Scandi-Japanese combination of textile patterns. Tengai means horizon in Japanese. This piece was created on a wood box panel and has a 2" edge. I continue the painting on the edges therefore no frame is required. I do so that one can enjoy the work from any angle and it stays on its own without the distraction of a frame. It is signed with my original hanko, or Japanese artist seal, for authenticity, and signed on the back.

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Painting:

Acrylic on Wood

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

39 W x 39 H x 2 D in

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Filiz Soyak is an interdisciplinary artist exploring themes of identity, memory, time, and place, using intuitive mark-making through mindfulness practices including meditation and breath. After becoming a mother in 2016, her work turned further inward drawing upon intuition and vulnerability. Meditation has become an integral connection to her creative process. Filiz’s work has been exhibited and collected internationally since 2000, and is in several permanent collections. Artist Statement: My work is deeply personal. It is how I process life’s experiences, learn about myself and about the world, understand what has left a mark and what has moved me. It serves as a guide to make sense of the feelings I have felt, didn’t know I had, and bring up what I have sometimes forgotten. My work is emotionally driven and guided by intuition. Everything from the materials I use to the process are all chosen based on what feels right in the moment. It is a practice in being authentic, digging into the layers of emotions and memories that reside in that space, and trusting myself. My work is my meditation. It is more about the process more than the end result. It is my source of calm, clarity, and inner wisdom. With my work, I seek to travel to the innermost depth of existence, exploring the landscape between the seen, the remembered, and the imagined. That energy of knowing, of generations and experiences vibrating from within, that only develop over time. My work has evolved with me and changes as I do. It has cycled through many iterations and that journey represents my history. Most recently, the change is a product of motherhood and experience – I believe I can say more, with less.

Artist Recognition
Showed at the The Other Art Fair

Handpicked to show at The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art in Brooklyn

Artist featured in a collection

Artist featured by Saatchi Art in a collection

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