About

I’m drawn to scars, broken objects, sad songs, the quiet heaviness of lived experience. Since childhood, I’ve had a recurring dream of huge rocks chasing the tiny stones; I try to roll with them and escape, but eventually we always crash. That feeling of fragile things trying to survive heavy forces sits at the core of my work and my life. 

I’m Selin, an artist and metalsmith from Istanbul, Turkey and now based in Brooklyn, NY. I studied plastic arts and sculpture, and my work moves between wearable pieces and small sculptural forms, both asking the same questions: how do we hold onto what we’ve been through and let them shape us without destroying us?

The city life teaches me to look closely. Worn subway tiles, tangled cables, rusted screws, and surfaces stained or discolored over time become starting points for my forms and textures. In the studio, experimentation always leads. I push materials until they misbehave, like bending metal until it looks fragile, distressing surfaces, pairing hard and soft, rigid and frayed together. Imperfection isn’t an accident; it’s my language. Each piece is meant to feel found rather than freshly made, as if it has already lived a life before meeting its wearer.

Whether it becomes a ring or a small sculpture, the work is about what we carry and how beauty can exist inside what looks broken at first glance.