constructed readings #AkınKamilAlparslan

It may make more significant for us to focus on a place from different angles. Examining a place around characters or events makes it easier and more fun to make sense of the place in a sense.

Prince mışkin is wandering around the streets, he is here for the first time. Everything is new to him. He is enjoy traveling. I wonder who has passed here before, he is questioning himself. He is moving fast as if he is trying to get somewhere. Hamit studies architecture, loves traveling and drawing. He had visited these places before, but he is curious and excited as if he was visiting for the first time. Here is the eunuch İbrahim Pasha, the work of architect Sinan, who made him walk a hundred steps, and wants some time to draw him in front of the mosque. Here is the contractor Ahmet, who says he has a brilliant idea about these structures, and his ideas seem very dubious. I hope their opinions about this place don’t harm the environment.

Prince Mışkin always says something about places, but he also feels the need to say something about death. How does a person feel when approaching death while being executed? He will be executed in 5 minutes and his time is limited. He knows that he will die in 5 minutes, but these 5 minutes seem more meaningful or longer than the 1 year in his life. He closes his eyes, a sharp knife will come over his neck. He is thinking, is this death the most painless death? He’s trying to think about how he’s feeling. Fear. He’s afraid, but it will be over soon. He takes one last breath…. People are looking at me, they watched it like the deaths before, but you may never experience the value of the last 5 minutes of my life in your own life.

I am visiting Yedikule. There are many actors here, I ask questions about this place or life. Some people say they don’t know at the beginning of my question. I didn’t say what else to ask. They are afraid, we know what they are afraid of. I’m taking a chance, some people seem to answer my questions. Metin brother talks about his dreams, he says that there will be peace, good economy, peace, I was born as a Muslim, I will die as a Muslim and resurrect as a Muslim. Look, let’s ask that evening jesus passing through the park. He had no imaginations and he tells a memory. I was stabbed in seven places…..

There is a man with a hat, let’s ask him, his name is Mustafa. He wants his children to have a good life. He wanted to live in houses like detached houses in the United States. He started to compare Germany and Turkey. Our questions began to shift to another phase. Thanks for your answers, brother Mustafa, we have a job, take care of yourself. Let’s ask this uncle walking by the sea, Uncle Ertuğrul, do you have a dream? You said you don’t have a dream, you don’t have a wish, is a healthy death all you want? You say that refugees should go to their own country, and you suggest that we do not should read the book because it improves thinking. Let’s ask that bike-riding man. Adem brother, do you have a dream? Is it healthy living? So do you have any suggestions about this place? You say it should be revived, tourism will come and architects will solve it. Thank you, Adem brother. Everyone has a certain dream, but their dreams about the space are more limited and the belief that the solution lies in the architect is quite high.