Everything is connected, everything is possible.
ARTFUL SPACES.com is not a classical art platform, but an insight into an ongoing process.
The works were not created with the market in mind, but emerged from the situation itself.
What you see here is a small excerpt from a much larger collection. Hundreds of images were created over several years. Some of these later led to texts, from which the first book in the MindShift series emerged: You are the Universe.
This book marks the beginning of a project that links art, language, and social questions.
The platform artful-spaces.com documents this journey in image and language.
The accompanying book series MindShift deepens the themes hinted at in the paintings: interconnectedness, self-inquiry, synchronicity, identity, and the silencing of purely functional thinking.
Artful Spaces
Classification of works in the MindShift context
Categorization of Works in the MindShift Context
Each of the works presented here can be assigned to a thematic resonance space of the MindShift series, not as an illustration, but as an independent expression that discusses the same questions in a different way:
Exemplifies the development of identity as a process, referencing Chapter 4 of You Are the Universe and reflections on the narrative self.
Refers to the order within the unpredictable, as understood as a creative force in Lost in Space.
Touches upon existential emptiness in the face of digital transformation.
reflects the dynamics of growth and overstimulation of our time.
addresses loss, change, and the capacity for empathy—motifs that are reflected in the engagement with time, transience, and resonance.
refers to learning through experience, a principle underlying the entire MindShift series: knowledge not as a result, but as a process.
stands for reconnection—with oneself, with the world, with the creative origin. It refers to the central thesis of You Are the Universe.
The other works:
MindShift is an interdisciplinary book series that arose from the same impulse as the images: the desire not just to observe the world, but to understand it. It is not a theory, but a space of experience where art, consciousness, and scientific reflection meet.
About consciousness as the origin of reality.
A poetic essay on the existential self-positioning.
A critical examination of the relationship between humans and Artificial Intelligence.
About self-perception, meaning, and change in an automated world.
Together they form a conceptual space in which the images are anchored as visual fragments. Painting speaks where words reach their limits, and the texts refer back to the ineffable that lies within the image.
MindShift Series: A Compass in Times of Upheaval
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Artist: Hakan Özgür