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The Word for World is Forest* | A Photo-Essay.
Turkish photographer Uygar Bulut captured his mother's #quarantine as she lusts for the forest. Her affinity with nature leads her to question the nature of what a #virus is. / A thread
https://themetric.org/articles/thewordforworldisforest
Turkish photographer Uygar Bulut captured his mother's #quarantine as she lusts for the forest. Her affinity with nature leads her to question the nature of what a #virus is. / A thread
https://themetric.org/articles/thewordforworldisforest
Her affinity with nature leads her to question the nature of what a virus is. What 'kind of illusion made us think that everything was about us? Agricultural revolution? Enlightenment?'
"The thing that the virus whispered into our ear, with its sharp voice, was simple and solid, "We are together in this...". That tiny thing, which was invisible to the eye at first, is now big enough to make our eyes bleed. The earth is a human colony." âU.Bulut
Many questions have to be answered before our second showdown with the "virus" begins and maybe an overdue apology is also to be offered... Every time the subject came around, my mother furiously asked, ââWhat did they want from a cave animal anyway?ââ
Due to my mother having asthma, she has been under lockdown in my home since the beginning of the pandemic. She was only visiting, then we decided to stay together when the lockdown started. We couldn't even fetch her clothes, thankfully my friendâs clothes were there to help.
Being locked up is hard, all the more if you are locked up in someone else's houseâŠ
After two months we were finally able to go to the place she wanted to see the most, the forest. If we have to open up this problematic dichotomy, it is to say that my mother has always been closer to nature than she's been to culture.
I have seen it every time I looked at her while she was gliding through nature; to me, it seemed like she always lived there and she was delivering her apologies.
I don't remember how many times I heard this sentence during her little escapes, "Do you know Uygar, even as a child I have always been saying that neither the sea nor going on a trip or anything else was more magical to me, the one I love the most has always been the forest.ââ
