These series of works are dedicated to the memory of my father, who passed away due to the Covid pandemic.
One day, as I was reading my father’s journal, I stumbled upon a quote from the famous Turkish poet Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı from his poem “Age Thirty-Five”. Tarancı’s poem is about aging and the passing of time.
“Age thirty-five! Half of the way!
We are in the middle of life like Dante.
(…)
The man in those pictures is not me
(…)
There is yet another colour to the sky
I noticed too late that the stone is hard
Water drowns, fire burns!
(…)
I selected some photographs from old family albums and transformed them, erasing the traces of the figures leaving only the backgrounds. I incorporated other elements in the installation of the work. The word “gökyüzünün” (to the sky), which is the beginning of the verse quoted, as well as other objects are here to explore the poetic possibilities of the work.
