WHERE LOVE BECOMES ART - Tuğrul Pekgenç & Valeria Gypsette | TRÆVOL™ Gallery

WHERE LOVE BECOMES ART A sliver of light before the touch… Before this artwork, there were words. Conversations at the end of tiring days, sentences that made us laugh and our dreams waiting to become to realities. Before TRÆVOL had a name, its first roots were growing in those exchanges. Within the marble, I imagined two souls growing toward one another. Beneath their fractured shoulders, their roots intertwine. Between them, a rose rises, retaining its delicacy amid the weight of stone. It all began the day you came into my life. Then our dreams found a name, too: TRÆVOL. “I have given us a name. Give it life. Let it be ours,” you said. I placed those words in the unseen foundation of this artwork. I placed a small light in the space between their hands. I wanted a touch that had yet to happen to illuminate an entire room. There is patience in every fold of this artwork, and a history still being carried within every fracture. In its roots lives the quiet resolve of two beings choosing to remain beside one another. The successive doorways carry a conversation into another thought, and a thought into another work of art. In each fine line, I placed the care of returning for another look. Through hours of refinement, I sought a form worthy of that first vision. Through it, I wanted to honour the trust placed in an idea, the time given to it, the willingness to return. I believe beauty grows where someone patiently makes room for it. TRÆVOL is where those early words now speak through light, stone, and patience. I dedicate it to the man who said, “All I did was stay beside you.” Sometimes, staying beside someone makes room for a beauty that did not exist in the world before. -Valeria Gypsette