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Gain Series Studies

Scrolls and plates in my family’s household embellished with Arabic calligraphy

were my earliest memories of written language. The marks

on these studies evoke fragments of those writings I couldn’t understand

yet found beautiful

Scrolls and plates in my family’s household embellished with Arabic calligraphy were my earliest memories of written language. The marks on these studies evoke fragments of those writings I couldn’t understand yet found beautiful. Working to embrace humility and ignorance I did these with a Turkish calligraphy pen used to write the old Turkish language which very few can read or understand now. Upon forming the Turkish Republic, the Turks modernized their written language to the Latin alphabet. In the the end the nation, though now more likely to assimilate with the rest of the world, became a people who cannot read their nation’s archives and history.

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