Journey is a foundational early series of ink and charcoal drawings documenting the emergence of line as a tool. Responding to personal and global crises, these works mark the transition from expressive gesture to the structured topographical language that defines the later series.

Artwork in a call for peace by Ilayda Mercankaya. This piece depicts the deformed body of a child killed in airstrikes in abstract form, with brush strokes and detailed line work.

This work depicts the deformed body of a child killed in airstrikes. The delicate brushwork is interrupted by harsh lines scratched into the paper with a sharp nib.


An abstract composition in ink and charcoal, where spherical dense darkness is pierced by sharp white lines.

Abstract organic line art painted with Indian ink, showing diverging and converging lines exploring relationship dynamics

Ink painting with round forms that swirl with detail and intensity, adorned with organic line work, depicting a state of disorientation.

The work visualizes the disorientation and overwhelm. A topographical linework is layered over this, containing the uncontrolled movements and giving the surface a new direction.


Abstract organic line art painted with Indian ink on paper, resembling topographical maps

A dense, spherical composition of the Earth in Indian ink and charcoal, drawn by Ilayda Mercankaya

Abstract black-and-white ink painting by Ilayda Mercankaya featuring fluid brushstrokes, organic shapes, ink splatters, and expressive linear elements on white paper, signed in the lower right corner.

The final work in the series, Journey, was created under severe pain due to nerve damage.


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