Kadir Çıtak

1. What feeling pushes you to produce? 

The main source of my inspiration is the relationship we establish with machines in our routine life. Observing the complex relationship between the organic and the mechanical transforming into a life form creates a strong feeling for me to keep on.

“Most of the time I start off with black and the other colors follow.”

2. What do you do when you are stuck?

I believe that new ideas tend to shape while working. Some images and ideas fall into my mind abruptly, while walking or on the road and I immediately jot them down in a notebook or draw them. My sketches resemble a huge library to me. I often choose something from that library and go over that image. I don't ever remember sitting in front of a blank paper.

3. How is your relationships with your audience? Where and how are your works published?

Although social media is an essential tool, I am quite happy to share my work with friends in my own atelier. My atelier is open to everyone; for a quick and small tour.

“New materials and mediums create an opportunity to keep myself updated. I always find myself as an amateur in some subject. I think this keeps me up to date and excited.”

4. If your works were alive, what would they look like? What language would they speak?

I’m not exactly sure if they would be human. It could be a super-efficient hybrid creature with mechanical and organic parts inside its body. The mechanical sounds it made would also be its own language.