Gunhan Bozkurt - Reversed Horizons

REVERSED HORIZONS

This collection reimagines the spatial principles of miniature painting on ceramic surfaces. By carrying trees, buildings, and gardens into three-dimensional form, I explore how the poetic perspective of the miniature can unfold within clay, transforming ornament into space and memory into matter.

In miniature painting, space unfolds not through the linear perspective of the Western canon but through a reversed gaze, where trees, buildings, and flowers rise toward the viewer in layered simultaneity. This distinct way of seeing — poetic, symbolic, and unbound by naturalistic illusion — becomes the guiding principle of this collection. I translate the spatial language of the miniature into three-dimensional ceramic form. Each surface becomes a terrain where gardens stretch, trees ascend, and architecture unfolds, not receding into depth but flowing outward in resonance. In this exercise, the ceramic object serves both as vessel and landscape: a space where memory, vision, and matter converge. By carrying the aesthetics of miniature painting into clay, I seek to transform its two-dimensional lyricism into a tactile encounter, allowing the viewer to move within a world where ornament and space, past and present, tradition and reinvention meet in quiet dialogue.