Gönül (The Inner Heart)
Stone ink on Okawara / Kozo paper, 2026
97 × 120 cm
From the 7 İklim series

In Turkish, gönül means more than the heart. It refers to an inner space where intuition, love, conscience, memory and spiritual truth are held.

Inspired by Yunus Emre’s understanding of gönül as one of the deepest inner places of the human being, this work traces a movement from mind toward heart. The ensō does not seek completion here; instead, it becomes the record of an inward passage.

Through the changing weight of the brush — from dense ink to fading gesture — the circle moves across an inner geography. Within the Seven Climates Ensō series, Gönül suggests that our inner climates are not fixed states, but places through which we continually pass.