for many, a depressive sad contemporary world although the word itself is ancient (it comes from the Germanic grau) and it has an underrecognized double symbolism that has been established and survived through the centuries; unlike the modern perception, at the end of the Middle Ages, as mentioned in the poem of Charles d'Orléans, entitled "The Grey of Hope", the grey was seen at that time as the opposite of black, a symbol of hope and happiness. Gunduz comes close to that idea of hope:

"Living in nature has changed my whole relationship with it. Before, nature for me was just an idealised romantic landscape that I saw through the car window, that I drove past. When I realised that this was not the truth, when I witnessed that nature recreates itself over and over again despite mankind, when I saw the grey in it, I thought that this was the harbinger of a new aesthetic, at least for me! The world, with its good and bad, will always remain worth painting."