GESTURE TRANSLATED INTO PIECE OF ART

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In my photography, I’m not inventing new scenes, I’m trying to notice what already exists. I look for details that are often overlooked: symmetry, reflections, repeated lines, small shifts in alignment. I use the camera as a tool to extract these moments, almost like taking a section cut through the city. Photography, for me, is not documentation; it is a method of seeing. Each image becomes a fragment, a precise selection, where reality is framed as structure. “Lean Stool” grows from the same logic. The piece originates from a long-standing gesture, first captured in an experimental sketch six years ago and now reinterpreted as a functional artwork. It feels like a physical in-between section, a fragment taken from that visual world and translated into an inhabitable object. It unfolds through close attention, not at first glance, but through contact. 

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In this sense, the stool is not only a design outcome, but also a tool: a way to slow the viewer down and invite closer attention, just as my photographs do. Revisiting an idea from the past is, in itself, an act of sustainability. Rather than producing endless new prototypes, "Lean Stool" grows from an existing creative memory, reworking energy already spent and expanding a thought instead of replacing it. The word lean is not about falling. It describes a state of balance, a posture that rests within stability. The form is intentionally displaced and slightly tilted, yet remains grounded. The softened, continuous surface contrasts with a more structured base, informed by architectural tectonics and the sharp silhouettes often present in my photography. The way the body engages with the object is part of the concept. The seat is not perfectly flat; a subtle curvature gently encourages a sideways position. It does not force a behavior, it guides it quietly. The design reveals itself through time, proximity, and touch. Like my photographs, “Lean Stool” does not insist on immediate understanding.

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Collaboration w/ |  Mutler.Eu

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Video & Photography |  Emre Kapçak & Burhan Küçükkardeş

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Assistants | Duygu Imamoğlu & Berke Cem Sönmez

 

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