62 Where East Meets West
Doğu ile Batı’nın Buluşması
Istanbul |
Turkey
Turkish
Behind the scenes
Few cities embody the meeting of East and West as powerfully, to me, as Istanbul.
It was while observing Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya) at different times of the day that the inspiration for this text came to me, with the idea that places of convergence are often the most fertile.
Built by the Byzantines, later turned into a mosque and then a museum, it brings together in a fascinating way Christian mosaics and Islamic calligraphy within the same space, bearing witness to centuries of history and transformation.
The illustration echoes the silhouette of Ayasofya, with a few creative interpretations. Through this drawing, I was thinking about faith, openness to the world, and the raw sense of wonder inspired by this architectural masterpiece.
Echoes of the world
The title Doğu ile Batı’nın Buluşması means “the meeting of East and West.” In Turkish, Doğu means “East” and Batı means “West.”
The word buluşma means “meeting.” The form buluşması adds a suffix indicating “its meeting” or “the meeting of…”. Turkish is an agglutinative language, meaning that many grammatical elements are formed by adding suffixes to a root word.
The name Ayasofya comes from the Greek Hagia Sophia, meaning “divine wisdom.”
Like the city of Istanbul itself, the Turkish language carries traces of multiple cultural and historical worlds.
And you, which words evoke the meeting of different cultures for you, and what do they make you feel?
To reflect and capture your thoughts, turn to the dedicated pages in the book.
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