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“It says something to me in an absolutely foreign tongue. I only know it is speaking because its voice begins and ends, and its eyes expect an answer. Again it speaks. I have no response. It sighs. We wait for the other to become more clear. We both wait.

Once, I remembered meeting it in a dream...

I know it knows what I’ve yet to know. If I listen carefully, maybe in the quiet of night in a foreign land, I may hear what it has to say. I’ve chased it off cliffs and romances, and it was just wind.”

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I was sitting in the quite night by the Sea, when it whispered to me again...

It says to me, You are writing my story.

I am overcome by emotions. Sometimes, when I look at the vastness of nature, tears stream down my face. I don't understand why it happens.

...but there is more. And I do not yet know what that is, either.

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Photos were taken on the road from Istanbul to Kaş, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Texts that appear in citation marks are excerpts from a book I was gifted while I was on the trip. During my stay in Kaş, I was reflecting on what I had read. The project represents an encounter between my thoughts, the physical space I was in, and the whispers of "it".

Everything you need to know by Kali Tiruneh

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