ilkeyilmaz

Designer + Artist

This space is an evolving collection of reflections—a dialogue between myself and the shifting landscapes of art, philosophy, design, and culture—where, through seventeen letters, I explore the intersections of presence and absence, material and immaterial, creation and perception, not as conclusions but as invitations to question, reconsider, and see anew, mapping the echoes of thought that emerge in the imperceptible moments where ideas take form, acknowledging that art is both a process and a negotiation between the artist and the observer, the seen and the unseen, the built and the imagined, making this neither a journal nor an archive but a manifesto in motion—a record of thinking as it unfolds, resisting finality, and whether a manifesto will have emerged by the end or, like all things in flux, will remain open-ended, waiting to be continued, remains uncertain, but for now, welcome to the conversation.

ilkeyilmaz

Designer + Artist

About

Hello,
I am İlke Yılmaz, an artist, designer, and researcher working at the intersections of art, philosophy, design, and culture. My work is driven by a curiosity for how we perceive, construct, and inhabit spaces both physical and conceptual.

Through writing, design, and artistic exploration, I investigate themes of presence and absence, material and immaterial, creation and perception, always questioning the shifting boundaries between them.

For me, design is not just about form but about thought, process, and experience. It is a means of exploring ideas, challenging conventions, and shaping new ways of seeing. This project is part of that exploration—an unfolding dialogue rather than a conclusion, an ongoing process of thinking and making.

Ilke Yilmaz