Olympos – Upward Gaze One | Bahar Kural

Series: Olympos – Upward Gaze

In Olympos: Upward Gaze, the mountains rise not as boundaries but as thresholds — silhouettes that draw the eye toward the weightless expanse above them. Here, the sky becomes an abstract plane of emotion, shifting between deep greens, wine tones, indigo, and midnight blue. The landscape is no longer anchored to the earth; it is lifted into the realm of the imagined, where color becomes atmosphere and atmosphere becomes memory.
The upward compositions invite a quieter form of longing — a reaching beyond what is visible. The mountains remain as ancient witnesses, but the true subject is the space above them: the place where breath expands, thought loosens, and the world feels briefly unbound.

This series continues my exploration of the threshold between realism and abstraction, but with a more ascendant energy — an opening rather than a grounding. If Earthbound Gaze listens to the hush of the land, Upward Gaze listens to the silence of the sky. Together, they form a meditation on presence, perception, and the infinite ways a landscape can hold us.