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Şüphesiz bu mücadeleyi kendi içinde kollara, dallara, yönlere ayırmak da mümkün. Rüyada rüyayla, tarihte tarihle, sokakta sokakla aralıksız ekstra mücadele. Aileden devlete toplumun her dilimini tarihte, coğrafyada, dilde, siyasette, dinde bulduğu önyargılarla eğip şekillendirmiş iktidar bloğu pis bir kovadır, onu denizde çalkalar balıkçı sanatçı.
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It is no doubt possible to divide this struggle into branches, routes. Permanent extrastruggle in dreams versus dreams, in history versus history, on the street versus the street. The block of history which has bent and shaped every slice of society from the family to the state with prejudice borne from history, geography, language, politics and religion is a dirty bucket, the fisher artist will rinse it in the sea. And whilst extrastruggling with history, the struggler sits alone in a deserted city square with an empty mind, knowing the crowd will soon arrive, yet scanning space and thinking of the following: history is on its way, yet up against now, history is history, no matter how it may strive to disturb it. No matter how stern, how ordinary, how untouchable, how flashy an image is, it will soften when confronted with art, it will soften just like the brain of a politician which has turned into a pulsing synthetic carpet of static from waiting in the protocol line at the Anıtkabir in summer wearing a wool suit, it will soften like the rapidly beating heart of a friend who returns the second he realizes he has shouted one sentence too much at a friend, it wll soften like the cracked soil which has sucked in the first overnight rain after the blazing summer months, and it will leave itself into the safe hands of the artist. O artist, will you prove yourself in charge of thy hands? Will you be able to look upon those that confront you in your world of graphic ideas from the sharpest angle and ask: A statue, a portrait, or a socialite? A dress, a backdrop, or the curtain which has fell on a lost period? The frowning brows of Atatürk will dissolve, the drops of sweat accumulated on his increasingly receding hairline will glide down his forehead, then his cheek, to wet his lips, and his lips will form a swinging sultanate boat of a smile between his dimples when they catch the sight of Turban Soray, herself a master of optimistic compromise, beating the social democrats at their own game, with her face shining like the moon from within that black frame. Thus the couple, wearing black, leaning on each other, and now nearly consumed by the darkness they gaze into, will whisper these words: "Graphic artists, do not listen to those who cry "You arrogants, what arrogance!" and take a look at the forest first! Look at the forest, and think, not where we come from, but how this forest came to be..."
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