TITLE: Archives of the Living
FORMAT: various
TECHNIQUE: oil on canvas / mixed technique

The plants in this Türkiye chapter do not form a closed botanical system, but a network
of relationships made of love, grief, salt, sand, resin, laboratory, poison, healing
knowledge and endangered attention.
ÇIÇEĞIM — Centaurea tchihatcheffii — stands for endangered love.
TERLA — Fritillaria imperialis — stands for the weeping crown.
PIYANI — Thermopsis turcica / Vuralia turcica — stands for endangered
abundance and multiple futures within a single flower.
LATILSIM — Lathyrus trachycarpus — stands for support, tendrils and
fragile relationships.
KUMZAM — Pancratium maritimum — stands for sand, coast and
vulnerable threshold spaces.
PAMUKU — Cistus monspeliensis — stands for Mediterranean resilience,
resin and soft resistance.
AÇIKARA — Taraxacum mirabile — stands for the wonder of seeing
precisely.
Together they tell of Türkiye as a living archive. This archive is neither a fixed origin nor a
romantic landscape. It is a multilayered space of memory in which plants carry political,
poetic, medical, pharmacological and ecological traces.
The plant no longer appears merely as a motif.
It becomes an actor in the narrative.