Born and raised in Cappodoccia, a city with many ancient sites, Zöngür is deeply moved by the classical tradition. As a child she walked daily past the historical ruins there. They made a strong impression on her and became embed ded in her memory creating an image bank that inspires her sculpture. Also as a child, she was  her parents, winding on circuitous routes to the mountains. This experience is manifested in her sculptural forms which twist and turn on them selves. Her philosophy is that all people have a “lifeway,” a route they take in their lives, some times direct, sometimes indirect, and they often   thing returns to its substance.” All of her work is 


This idea of lives intertwined was what she wanted to amplify in her sculpture in Belize: that everything returns to a basic spirit or essence. The stone she was given in Belize was huge and she had to develop forms to suit this scale, so she carved large simple shapes. She is inter ested in the contradictions of matter and thus as stone is hard she chooses to show soft forms in stone with gentle rhythms and shadows. Her sculpture evokes nature, and her undulat   the surface. It is of the sea, implying boats with  of the work. The surface is both smooth and rough, the latter showing the interesting veins and imperfections of the local limestone. The huge horizontal sculpture is undercut and seems to almost lift off the ground defying the laws of gravity, and making it appear light weight – a tremendous contradiction.


 and she saw the symposium as an opportunity. She had no prior knowledge of the country but was attracted by the Mayan culture and the superb natural environment. While she was there, Zöngür was deeply affected by her visit to the Actun Tunichil Muknal cave (ATM) and she feels that she has ideas for a hundred sculptures based on her experience of that very special spiritual place.


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