This work is a striking contemporary meditation on human memory, digital decay, and our primal roots. The central motif references the monumental stone heads from Göbekli Tepe, one of humanity’s earliest ritual sites. These figures, deeply carved and timeless, have been fractured here by a digital glitch aesthetic; the same motifs of scrambled code, broken typography, and bright pixelations that haunt our modern technological age.
In this piece, the ancient stone visages stand stoic and silent, while their images are pulled apart, corrupted, and reframed by an invisible digital hand. It evokes the idea that no matter how far we advance, our thoughts, our collective “Göbekli”, remain vulnerable to distortion, reinterpretation, and decay.
The vivid turquoise, sapphire, and earthy tones woven through the piece echo the Anatolian landscapes where Göbekli Tepe stands, a reminder of a land where civilization was seeded. Yet the overlays of harsh blue text, chaotic marks, and pixel patterns speak to our present moment: constantly mediated, filtered, and fractured through technology.
There’s a powerful tension here: the eternal and the ephemeral, the durable stone monuments and the fragile digital signals. I invite you to consider whether our own “monuments” today, our photos, our data, our thoughts, will withstand time as those first carved faces did, or whether they too will eventually break down into unreadable glitches.
Thoughts from Göbekli is a visual elegy to human memory, showing that even our oldest stories, once so secure in stone, are now subject to the same digital entropy that threatens to erase us from our own histories.
