WET HEART

This painting is a melancholic and serene portrait of someone leaving their homeland.

Tears flow like heavy drops that harden and turn into pearls due to the absence and memory of those left behind.

The sea, with its dual nature, is both the medium that enables departure and, at the same time, an unforgiving element that separates and devours.

It is both route and abyss, memory and erasure. Its waves suggest both movement and instability, evoking the uncertainty of a new destination.

In this work, water is not just landscape: it is a living symbol of transition, change, and the complex relationship between belonging and uprooting, capturing.