He is a person with excitement within his work. There are signifant moments in people’s life that changed their point of view Yılmaz Şen tells his way of life through the movement of his imagery. For him authenticity is being used as a tool to amplify the visual impact for his viewer and combine it with something unexpected. We had an inspiring conversation with Yılmaz Şen, here he is playing with the perception of reality and creating the surreal around the globe.
Yılmaz Şen: I have started in early ages with drawing cartoon characters and comics. That has been the start. As my grades got worse and worse at school image creation started to become something more and more significant in my life. Later this led me to have image creating and design a carrier of choice for me.
To me, reality is highly subjective since it’s based on our perception.
Yılmaz Şen: The turning point was a tough period in my life. I had a bad break up with my partner back in time and I was unhappy with my studies. This made me search for something that I can feel passionate about in life. I always wanted to make animations so I started teaching myself 2D and 3D animation through online tutorials. Over time my passion that took over other things I already had on my plate and I started making animations professionally.
Yılmaz Şen: To me, reality is highly subjective since it’s based on our perception. Depending on our mental state “real” can vary extremely from one person to another. So for me “real” is the combination of our senses and our personal interpretation of it.
Yılmaz Şen: Nowadays in my artistic creation process, I get to play with the balance between these two. My personal preference is to maintain some level of authenticity and combine it with something unexpected and “original”. Therefore authenticity is being used as a tool to amplify the visual impact for the viewer.
Yılmaz Şen: I can’t tell that I’m that much in to shaping up the world or something like that. I’m easily getting bored of things in my personal life. So my motivation is mostly about not to be bored with what I do. So I’m trying to do something that I personally feel excited about. Do something I haven’t done and I haven’t seen. That is what moves me.
Yılmaz Şen: Very much. I think we are on the way to that direction. As we get better with creating appealing VR and AR experiences and improve the technologies behind it eventually it will be a very popular medium. I totally see that as digital taking over reality.
So for me “real” is the combination of our senses and our personal interpretation of it.
Yılmaz Şen: They first approached me with my previous tests and sketches I did over the last 1-2 years. They asked I would be interested in doing something with a similar taste. So I pitched around 3 ideas and we moved on with one.
Yılmaz Şen: I see unlimited varieties, so I guess I don’t have a very clear answer to that. Also because that is already what I’m trying to explore with my work.
Yılmaz Şen: I think there is always an interest towards what is new and unexplored. Nowadays that direction is CG images. As an artist using CG images this is of course exciting for me.
I find it valuable because of the fact that it’s a digestible project for many people. It is helping people get used to something they were not used to.
Yılmaz Şen: First of all; I haven’t done something in this scale before to a brand this big. So this brings so many emotions. Mostly I feel happy and also a bit lucky. They trusted me and believed in the project. At the end I had a great feedback from them and I am also satisfied with the result. All that is hard to achieve.
Yılmaz Şen: I would say that I play with the perception of reality and create surreal videos. This is something I would say to someone who haven’t heard about digital art. And they probably still wouldn’t understand anything from this. I tried this many times. They’ll have to see it.
Yılmaz Şen: Well, my recent routine goes a bit like this; I start the day with a lemon tea and porridge that I share with my wife. I hop on my bike an go to my studio. Check my calendar and go through to do’s of the day. There’s almost always between 5-30 min of fresh music discovery every day. Rye bread at lunch. After the end of the work day I head back home to have dinner with my wife. Then just rest. That’s what my day looks like.
Yılmaz Şen: I love raves. So my answer is Berlin.