Silent Streets

This series began as a personal need—to express a quiet kind of uncertainty I was feeling in unstable times. I wanted to create a visual language for that sense of disconnection, that floating feeling of being present in the world, yet somehow apart from it. The works in *Silent Streets* reflect that space of stillness, fragility, and introspection.

Each scene is built using 3D game development software. I construct deserted cities, empty intersections, dimly lit streets. A single human figure appears—small, still, isolated in the vast urban landscape. These are not real places, but imagined ones. Digital echoes of loneliness.

In this series, I wanted to evoke emotion not through expressive faces, but through anonymity. The figure in each image is faceless and alone, surrounded by a vast, silent city. Up close, the works appear abstract—just tangled lines and visual noise. But with distance, they reveal quiet, deserted streets and a single human presence. That transformation—from chaos to clarity—is what gives these images their tension and weight.

The drawing is then engraved into black wood using my self-built laser cutter. But black on black is subtle—almost invisible. To bring the portrait to life, I hand-apply oil paint made from linseed oil and pigment powders into the engraved lines. The result is a richly textured relief that feels somewhere between a stone engraving and a digital fossil.

*Silent Streets* invites you to pause. To observe. To feel. And maybe to recognize something of yourself in the quiet figure at the center of it all.