NEO - KUBAD ABAD TILES 

Medium: Handmade Underglaze Technique on Ceramic Tile 

Size: 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm (Each Eight Pointed Star Piece) 

Year:2021-... 

The habits that we lived and did not break in each period have dragged us into clear patterns and have become the elements that describe our life of that day in the sources. Today, these patterns have inherited collective shares that can start in our own flat and affect the rest of the world in the same way. The characteristic depictions applied on ceramics and tiles with the effect of the prohibition of depicting the human figure in the regions where Islam was accepted in the Middle Ages, today constitute the most important visual source phenomenon from which we can analyze the events of that period. 13th-century Kubad Abad Palace (Konya/Turkey) tiles, which depict the life, beliefs, important events, and hierarchy of that day in the Anatolian Seljuk The period is one of the important visual references that tell us the thoughts, daily life systems, and relations of that period. In these works, which aim to leave today’s flow to the future as a permanent visual inventory, the unbreakable patterns, styles, and decoration systems brought by the art of tile, the characteristic features of Kubad Abad tiles and compositions consisting of “Seljuk Stars” wall tiles, today’s patterns, routines, conditions and needs are expressed. (the series continues, 2021-...)