An account of a day-trip

Bonded narratives of space

Abstract

Based on a personal day-trip to the archeological site, Aşağıpınar Höyük in Kırklareli, I carry out experiments by means of drawing and writing, on the notion of a spatio-temporal place at an archeological site. The case of Aşağıpınar Höyük is specificly chosen for this research, in consideration of a rare event of bonding with stray dogs happened at the site and an estranged encounter with the life-sized wax models installed for visitors’ imaginary. In this paper, I discuss that the site-specific case of bonding with the dogs gives access to the disregarded quotidian at an archeological site, overturning the human-centered value of time in matter. With cross-readings in theoretical context of a corporeal receptivity of otherness, I endeavor into a search for the mythical narrative of matter, trapped stories of wax models in trace of the dogs’ time running its own course, eventually departing from the time of linear history.

Through four kinds of drawing methods, I attempt to engage with a non-hierarchical presence of time. Searching for bonded narratives of space through intervals of time, the drawn research project oscillates between fact and fiction.