Meditations

This ongoing series is the result of my meditative sessions. The linework acts as an inner mapping of experience, and an invitation into a moment of stillness


Large-scale deep blue painting on canvas by Ilayda Mercankaya Visual Artist, with organic white lines that resemble an underwater flowing river.

An invitation into a neon world, it simultaneously operates as a physiological trap.

Prolonged fixation saturates the retina, inducing photochemical fatigue in the red-sensitive cones.

This biological mechanism creates a negative afterimage, leaving the viewer’s world temporarily washed in a phantom green; a lingering ghost of the neon intensity that I myself endured as I drew upon the surface.

Installation view of the work Der Fluss by Ilayda Mercankaya, in an exhibition at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart in 2025.
Blue colored meditative painting on canvas featuring white and blue organic line art resembling mountains, created by Ilayda Mercankaya, a visual artist.
Bright neon pink painting on canvas with white and red organic line art by Ilayda Mercankaya Visual Artist.

An invitation into a neon world, it simultaneously operates as a physiological trap.

Prolonged fixation saturates the retina, inducing photochemical fatigue in the red-sensitive cones.

This biological mechanism creates a negative afterimage, leaving the viewer’s world temporarily washed in a phantom green; a lingering ghost of the neon intensity that I myself endured as I drew upon the surface.


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