Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting: Digital Painting and Expanded Animation

Azra Cetin

Swimming Under the Sunlight

This painting explores how memory emotionally reshapes a place. It comes from a childhood memory of blooming trees outside my home in Istanbul, where fallen petals would cover the ground like a soft, pink blanket. As a child, I imagined it as a river that I could drift through. Over time, that image became less about the physical space and more about a feeling of comfort and belonging.I approached the piece through a playful, almost childlike visual language. The colors are bright, the forms are simplified, and the blossoms carry the most detail, reflecting how memory tends to hold onto certain elements while letting others fade. The spiral forms in the background suggest the way memory shifts and distorts, turning something real into something more personal and imagined.Rather than painting a place exactly as it is, this work paints how it is remembered. Holding onto a quiet, emotional connection to home, shaped by distance, time, and longing.