Through the media of the Sea of Marmara and Marmara Island, “Possibility of an Island” explores the fragility and intersection between three different but related bodies: human-island-water. Poetry and photography gradually blur the distinction between human and nature by encouraging us to think about these bodies and their connections.
The Sea of Marmara, where I grew up on the coast, is part of the above family . It is a body of water that taught me to invite, embrace, be, relate, flow and fluctuate. Through this close relationship with the Sea of Marmara, I question the position and definition of the human body. How do relationships shift and re/shape when we begin to perceive our body as a body of water? How does the perception of the physical body affect our thoughts and way of being in this world?
In the end, poetry is not going to clean the sea or change the government and its priorities. However, it will hold things together and remind us of what matters.