My upstairs studio in the house where I lived and worked. Installation for the doctor's degree, 2012
My work began as an attempt to render thought through drawing. I was initially inspired by the idea of the stream of consciousness, which seeks to capture the free, pre-verbal flow of thought, as well as different ways of recording it—such as the mind map referenced in the title, simple linear notes, or diagrams. The question of how to record thought naturally raised the question of the nature of thought itself. Another equally important impulse came from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s famous statement in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” It made me reflect, as a visual artist, on what shapes my own consciousness.
In my work, it felt natural to draw on the tradition of conceptual art, which emphasizes the artist’s thought process and, in its analytical or linguistic forms, treats language as a material. The result was a site-specific piece. The studio's location on the upper floor of a house added a symbolic dimension, which I read through psychoanalytic interpretations of space as a structure of the mind. In the installation, this concept became a way of transforming a familiar space into a tool for introspection, inviting viewers to momentarily “enter the artist’s mind” during the act of creation. The pseudo-poetic text displayed in the studio consists of excerpts from my readings at the time.
