🖋️ Traces Left Behind
Some works are not confined to the surface they’re drawn on.
Some become book covers, others appear in exhibitions, or find their way into a song.
This writing explores how Mehmedtahir’s signature transcends its frame and touches other mediums.
Each one is unique. Each one is a quiet, lasting trace.
🗓️ 2024 – Magazine Feature: Art Full
📰 Art Full Magazine – April Issue
Works: On the Bark I–II
Theme: Organic materials and their relation to the body
Pages: 34–35
Two leaf-based works from the “Nature Collection” were featured as visual companions to the issue’s central concept.
🗓️ 2023 – Music Album: Islık
🎧 Islık, an independent digital album
Artwork: Untitled Figure No.2
Artist: Narin Oğuz
Label: Independent
“A line is the face of sound.”
The silence within the figure aligned with the quiet beneath the melody.
🗓️ 2023 – YouTube Interview: “The Silent Face of Art”
🎥 Program: Metametrik – YouTube
Episode: Gölge Kelimeler | Metametrik Wednesday Talks #79
Guest: Mehmet Tahir Yıldız
Date: February 2023
🔗 Watch on YouTube
“Art is sometimes what cannot be heard.”
In this talk, I shared my process, the fragility of facial imagery, and why I avoid replication.
What I didn’t say left just as much of a trace.
🗓️ 2022 – Book Cover: The Poet’s Skin
📖 Poetry book: The Poet’s Skin
Artwork: Fracture of the Soul
Publisher: Atlas Poetry Publications
Cover Design: Elif Bal
The fragmented face seeped into the verses.
The artwork on the cover filled in the silences of the poems.
🗓️ 2022 – Bodrum Art Fair: BAF
🖼️ Composite Exhibition – Herodot Cultural Center, Muğla
Participation: 8 original works
Date: August 2022
A collection of figurative and nature-themed pieces were displayed.
Lonely faces stood still within the crowd —
their silence echoed throughout the gallery.
🗓️ 2021 – Group Exhibition: Silence
🖼️ Silence-Themed Group Exhibition – City Gallery
Artwork: Dead End (Çıkmaz)
Location: Adana Metropolitan Municipality
Curator: Elif Balcı
“Dead End” stood quietly on the wall.
It gave no direction —
yet somehow, it touched everyone’s path.
🧩 Closing Note:
This list will grow in time.
Because a trace is not just something that appears — it passes through.
These works were traces.
And traces continue to pass.