Silent Streets

This series began as a personal need—to express a quiet kind of uncertainty I was feeling in unstable times. I wanted to create a visual language for that sense of disconnection, that floating feeling of being present in the world, yet somehow apart from it. The works in Silent Streets reflect that space of stillness, fragility, and introspection.

Each scene is built using 3D game development software. I construct deserted cities, empty intersections, dimly lit streets. A single human figure appears—small, still, isolated in the vast urban landscape. These are not real places, but imagined ones. Digital echoes of loneliness.

In this series, I wanted to evoke emotion not through expressive faces, but through anonymity. The figure in each image is faceless and alone, surrounded by a vast, silent city. Up close, the works appear abstract—just tangled lines and visual noise. But with distance, they reveal quiet, deserted streets and a single human presence. That transformation—from chaos to clarity—is what gives these images their tension and weight.

The drawing is then engraved into black wood using my self-built laser cutter. But black on black is subtle—almost invisible. To bring the portrait to life, I hand-apply oil paint made from linseed oil and pigment powders into the engraved lines. The result is a richly textured relief that feels somewhere between a stone engraving and a digital fossil.

Silent Streets invites you to pause. To observe. To feel. And maybe to recognize something of yourself in the quiet figure at the center of it all.