FLUX: Fire
"Echoes of Endings & Beginnings"
(Ongoing)
FLUX is a collection of video art works, an ongoing research on constant change and balance, through the narrative of elements.
The successive chapter of this collection, FLUX: Fire “Echoes of Endings & Beginnings”, is a series of video art works and short films, narrating tales from diverse landscapes, documenting the element “Fire”; a depiction of the mind and the search of
a state of “Consciousness”; through a continuous loop of Destruction and Renewal.
Fire is the symbol of transformation. It is the decomposition and regeneration of energy. It is visible to all the senses. It is sharp, subtle and mobile.
Over centuries, ancient cultures had developed philosophical concepts and thought patterns to grasp the mechanism of life and being. By all means the influence between Hinduism and Buddhism is inevitably lucid, however, the analogy in the realization of elements in completely different parts of the world, such as Aztec, Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Indian and Central African communities,
in the absence of any cultural interaction, is truly substantial.
The collection’s main focus is to develop a channel to understand the concept of the mind’s liberation, interpreting the ancient Eastern teachings into a script that is free from the analytical abstraction of the Western approach.
Through this series of video art works, "Echoes of Enginds & Beginnings" aims to construct a holistic and immersive
experience for the viewers, whilst carrying them through a continuous loop of moving inside and outside, encouraging to find a common ground to be the observer and observee concurrently.
Pyra | 2o25
Pyra, the first piece in the "Echoes of Endings & Beginnings" collection, is a narrative inspired by the essence of the Fire element, rooted in the myth of the phoenix—the ancient bird born from the eternal dance of destruction and renewal.
The name Pyra means “that of fire.” As the essence of flame, she carries both the light that reveals and the heat that destroys – life and death. Fire seeks truth as it is her duty to annihilate illusion. It rises to expose the shadows and burn through Māyā, the veil of worldly illusion that conceals the real nature of existence.
In this mythic telling, fire chooses to enter the material world as a phoenix—the legendary sun bird that dies only to rise from its own ashes. Symbolic across cultures—from the Greek phoînix to the Egyptian Bennu—the phoenix embodies solar rebirth and the eternal return of light.
Over centuries, empires twisted fire’s essence to conquer. They exiled her from her own heavens, reducing her to a weapon. But what they failed to understand was she is the light that brings justice in the darkness.
And so she burns for truth. She bursts into flames by her own will—releasing all borrowed identities, breaking through illusion, and reclaiming her sovereignty. She hovers at the edge of the unseen, choosing the blaze of clarity over the comfort of falsehood.
The visuals for Pyra were predominantly captured at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal - , where open-air cremation rituals unfold continuously on the banks of the Bagmati River. In this liminal space, fire becomes a portal: returning the body to ash and releasing the soul toward moksha—the liberation from samsāra, the cycle of death and rebirth, central to both Hindu and Buddhist thought.
Fire does not grieve. She burns. And through the flames, she becomes the bridge between the seen and the unseen. The curtains of Māyā fall when there is nothing left hidden. Thus, Pyra is an abstract documentation of this endless cycle—of the echo of an ending and the raw promise of a new beginning.
Written, Narrated & Directed by Deniz Sak
Video Art by Deniz Sak
Music & Sound Design by DZSKN
Contributing Sound Artists & Collectives: Alice Soundz & Free Sound Community
Sound Engineering by DZSKN
Filming Locations: Argentina, Brazil, Nepal, Sri Lanka & Turkey
Country of Production: Turkey
July, 2o25