Such a commonly known food doesn’t upset the stomach nor carry provisions from the very first sentence fast beside it; people want both to wander and to remain fixed, both to eat and to be far from costs and pain. They want both to go and to return while going, and they want both to set foot on other lands and leave their mark as they do so; they want both to avoid traps and to set traps, to make and to be unrecognized for making, and when recognized, they want mercy upon mercy.
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Hep bildik bir yiyecek, ne karın ağrıtır ne baş cümlesinden bir azık taşınmaz ya yanı başında, insan hem gezmek hem çakılı kalmak, hem yemek hem mesarif ve ağrıdan uzak olmak ister. Hem gitmek hem giderken dönmek ister, hem başka toprağa ayak basmak hem basarken mühür basmak ister, hem tuzaklardan uzak olmayı hem tuzak kurmayı ister, hem yapmayı hem yaptığının bilinmemesini ister, bilinince de af üstüne af ister.
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StepStep (BasBas), 2016. Mixed media, 90×40 cm. “Timeless Palace Museum” @SPOT Production Fund, Istanbul, TR.
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