About
​​I am a writer and teacher working at the intersection of art, literature, and spirituality.​
My work begins from a conviction that has shaped both my thinking and my way of living: art is not an addition to life, but the ground from which it grows. Poetry, literature, music, and the visual arts are not merely objects of aesthetic appreciation for me; they are formative forces. They shape how I perceive the world, how I attend to experience, and how I understand what it means to live with depth, integrity, and orientation.
I was trained as an art historian and philosopher. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Art History (with honors) from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and a PhD in the Philosophy of Art from Cornell University in the United States. I later worked as a visiting professor in art history and philosophy at Sabancı University in Istanbul. This academic formation continues to inform my work through intellectual rigor, historical awareness, and a heightened sensitivity to the power of language, images, and ideas. It also anchors my work in a tradition of serious thinking, rather than trend-driven spirituality or self-help discourse.​​
At the same time, my path has been shaped as much by limits as by achievements. Over time, I became increasingly aware that a life lived primarily through the intellect — however refined — remains incomplete. While the academy​ sharpened my capacity to analyze and interpret, it left little room for forms of knowing rooted in feeling, imagination, intuition, and the body. I began to realise that the questions that mattered most to me could not be resolved by thought alone. Stepping away from an academic career was therefore a deliberate and necessary choice - a commitment to live my philosophical convictions rather than merely articulate them.
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It was in this context that the work of Carl Jung became very important to me. Jung did not enter my life as a theory to be added to an existing framework, but as a turning point in how inner experience could be
taken seriously. Through his psychology, dreams, images, feelings, and intuitions revealed themselves as legitimate sources of knowledge. This encounter marked the opening of a spiritual dimension in my life — not as belief, doctrine, or metaphysics, but as sustained attention to the reality of the inner world and the deeper ground from which it emerges.
From this perspective, art and spirituality are inseparable for me. They arise from the same source and depend on cultivated imagination rather than abstract thinking, on embodied sensitivity rather than conceptual mastery. Spirituality, as I understand it, is not an escape from the world but a form of grounded presence: attentiveness to land and sky, to seasons and tides, to hills and waters — and to the slow education of feeling, intuition, and imagination as lived ways of knowing and orienting a life.​​
Today, my creative writing forms the core of my work. From it flow the essays, courses, literary and spiritual journeys, a book club, and individual consultations offered on this website. These are not separate activities, but different expressions of a single orientation — one shaped by art, imagination, and grounded attention to the inner and outer worlds. Across all these expressions, the intention remains the same: to cultivate a life that is richer, truer, more intense, more meaningful — and therefore, ultimately, more beautiful than it would be without this orientation.
If you wish to get in touch, you can contact me here.
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