Photograps and Writings are takem from "Mardin" book by Lütfi ÖZGÜNAYDIN

To Mardin in Longing

Languages are a Symphony

From windows to Mesopotamia Plane

Legens are Everywhere

Magical Past...

Monasteries

Can Mardin be without pigeon?

The Charm of the chain

Mardin Castle

Dereiçi Village

He placed his cup of coffee in front of hım and just started to drink

Tombs face the city

The house of the Mungans

I went to prison in Dara

Shahmaran, the Master Of Snakes

Anguısh on the wall

Life flows to the Mesopotamia Plain

A New day dawns, words keep on telling their tales

The human and the light

In front of the seminary

Wast it love that flowed to babaylon?

Night conceals many things

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THE HUMAN AND THE LIGHT...

 

How can you describe the human and the light? The human is the light of the world. Or, in other words, human takes his light from the world. Which of these ideas should be defended?
     
The human's light is coming from nature. Nature is in the origin of arts and philosophy, isn't it? The human being should walk inside the light. Embracing each other like brothers and sisters. Enlightening. Light enlightens. Light enlightens nature, nature enlightens the human... We have first looked at nature. Then to ourselves. Have we solved ourselves?

      The human is always in a search. Looking at the things in nature, creates in time and rolls around. Everything is temporary... The living humans leave behind them the human honour... The tunnel made by stones is the product of the human mind... Then, they have cut the stone and put them on top of each other and were swept by the broom of time. The things constructed have sometimes been protected and sometimes knocked down. The only thing that can't be knocked down is probably the word... The thinking human discovered the word. The word falling on stone, leather, paper has become immortal. The human, looking at the existing, has thought. He has always seeked immortality.

       Is there anyone who could find it? The words of the seek, still exist. The remains of thought have been damaged least... They are moving in languages... The human wrapped in light, goes on thinking and producing in time that is fastly running. Sometimes, he goes back to the ancient, sometimes walks in galaxies... The light is always there. Wrapping the human...

       It is the human who has invented the arts and philosophy. Are these seeking for the unknown? Sometimes it is nature which reminds thoughts, sometimes it is the light... The thinking human has sometimes been regarded as melancholic, sometimes as a knight running after a concrete piece of knowledge..

 
 
 
 

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