HIS COMPLE-DICTION: COMPLETION THROUGH CONTRADICTION

THE CONTRADICTION
He sustains both engineering and artistic practice without surrendering either. Engineering accelerates time through efficiency, while art resists through slowness and attention. The unresolved tension between forward momentum and deliberate pause becomes the ground from which his practice emerges.

THE COMPLETION
Completion arises through integration, not resolution. Engineering provides structure and complexity; art assigns direction and meaning. Technical remnants transform into artistic material, producing hybrid works where precision and intuition mutually complete one another.

MATERIALIZED MANIFESTO

The Stone Ring and the Stone Necklace are produced as exact models of the first stone lost by MSK. These objects mark the transformation of the manifesto from a textual statement into material forms carried on the artist’s body.

PREVIOUS ARTWORKS

Non-Hypsometric Stones | Colored not by Elevation but Imagination (2025)

These works emerge from Stone Canvases through the deliberate disruption of elevation-based coloration prior to production.  Each work is produced through an irreversible color process and epoxy-coated by MSK to achieve its final luminous finish. Every Non-Hypsometric Stone is unique and unrepeatable by design.

Artwork on Stone Canvases | Re-Materializing a Lost Sea Stone by Recycling (2025)

Stone Canvases emerge from loss and transformation. MSK re-materializes a lost sea stone by recycling 3D-printing waste into filament, turning absence into form. Painted and framed as integral works, these stone canvases transform engineering waste into art, allowing the lost stone to persist through material translation.

 

 

RESUME

The artist holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU) and a Master’s degree from Akdeniz University. With a professional background spanning energy systems, automation, robotics, and control engineering, his work is grounded in a deep understanding of technical structure, systems thinking, and functional design.

Alongside his artistic practice, he founded a company focused on developing functional products that can be manufactured through 3D printing. This intersection of engineering precision and creative experimentation informs a multidisciplinary approach, where material, process, and perception are explored as interconnected systems.

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