LAB ART PRIZE
Artists selections: January 14, 2026
Esra Yeşilli Turkey Painting

Artwork title : Pearlight-Elio

He stands in the middle of a wide field of faded grass, the earth quiet and colorless beneath the open sky. There are no trees, no shadows—only light moving freely across the land. The sun cuts through his gaze as he looks away, not toward the fruit he carries, but toward something distant and unseen.

One hand rests near his chest, holding an apple, a pomegranate, and a pear, gathered together as if counted carefully. The other hand hangs close to his leg, loosely holding a half-eaten pear, its pale flesh catching the light. The contrast feels deliberate: what is saved and what is already consumed, what is kept and what is passing.

His clothes are clean, simple, shaped by work rather than hardship. He is young, yet his posture carries the quiet discipline of labor. In that still moment, surrounded by nothing but faded grass and sun, he exists between need and restraint, between childhood and responsibility—holding sweetness close to his heart while the future waits, bright and distant, in his eyes.