Recent Essays
With thinning came an expansion of my identity toward every piece of land one could be from on this Earth.
I opted out of the big earthquake feed but could not escape its vicarious trauma. My reaction to Türkiye/Syria earthquake, through the lens of ex-pat life and climate change.
READ in Climate Psychology Alliance - Climate Crisis Digest.
Climate reality is in black and white. The psychology of it, not quite.
Even in my small slice of life, I experienced a whole range of emotional states and responses within the last few years. Curiosity and enthusiasm. Disillusionment and burnout. Introspection and healing. I cocooned myself in motherhood and invited joy back into my life. I found new kin and communities and restored a sense of empowerment. Then, last month I got a taste of the alert, mama bear state in the face of immediate danger…
READ in Climate Psychology Alliance NA Blog.
Artist. Mother. Founder. Focused on Climate Psychology
I am a Los Angeles-based Turkish American artist, digital producer, and business founder. My work is in reaction to climate change and to review my identity as an immigrant. I investigate the links between mental health and the planet's health via artistic compulsions and research in social sciences.
Earth’s Distress Calls in the Psyche
Planetary Health Alliance Annual Meeting 2021
Poster Presentation
Transforming
(Earth) Emotions
Morphic Units are abstract drawings in automatism, which began as art therapy in 2018 and evolved into research in psychology.
Earth Radio or the Rise of Planetary Psychodynamics
Can we defrost a multisensory dialect that can process intra-planetary chatter in more efficient ways than verbal communication?
Manifesto of a Solastalgic Artist
“Earth is a living body. Artist is a translator.
The Artist Body receives the distress calls of the Planet Body. Her musings are the encrypted messages of nature. She alone can trap those abstract cues into signs and speech.