Image / Trace: Burcu Yagcioglu

published Sep 18, 2007
Image Trace Burcu Yagcioglu
The stain effect of liquid and pictorial representation comes together to create delicacy in the fashion of drawing.

The decorative elements do not spoil the feeling of plainness in the entire picture where the monochrome does not create monotony.

Stagnant appearance, independent from the viewer and the artist, is in a secret motion: the chemistry of paper, colours, stains modify in time.

Rather then considering paper as a material and the surface to be painted, she transforms it into a medium.

While playing with half visible, half secret images, she creates and experimental platform for her paintings in process.

Making probably never ending experiments on a variety of paper types, she starts from the traces of liquids on paper.

Before starting to new drawings, Yagcioglu covers some of her papers with lemon juice.

While lemon juice chemically reacts with paper, she starts her drawing / paintings with brown ink.

Then the brown colour of the ink that is to get lemon juice that is slowly going to become barely perceptible and the lemon juice that is going to get darker and darker brown play the key role on the transformation process of these paintings.