THE SPUNK

Everything starts with a small sparkle. A tiny sparkle, tiny smoke. Life is established with these sparkles and disappears with these sparkles; it gains meaning with these sparkles or becomes meaningless. Actually each movement, each act has a history. Some sees everything beforehand; this is the experience gained in the formation process of the movement or the event. Experience is learned by trying sometimes, it can’t be learned by trying sometimes.

A small piece of smoke at the shore across is the fire. Seems like it is obliged to stay at the shore across and will not be able to show the courage to enter our lives; even if it shows, its head may be crushed, destroyed. It could be destroyed yes but what is left behind is only ash and smoke, that’s all. Who fired the first sparks? Who allowed this? As black smokes rise to the sky, all questions become meaningless and fade, darken by graying. Now blue is against the gray; black against the green and of course all colors. The moment when all questions become meaningless comes; this is what is inevitable. It is not likely to go back; to see all the colors again in a deep blue day.

et, that first question is important: Who fired the first spark? Actually everything is clear. All one should do is to see behind all these black smokes. Otherwise we can’t do anything other than staring at the black smokes together with sighing. You see what can we do? Thus green becomes grayish first, then black smokes rise to the sky, the afterwards is always grey. And suddenly, as the shore across turned into grey in a day, the machines operate in the shore across in another day, we can see that machines even in the middle of the sea. Suddenly, a bulldozer in the middle of the sea, sea is drowned. Suddenly concretes start to rise in the shore across; first on, then two, then it is not necessary to count anymore. Everywhere is white concrete. You are condemned to see that concrete masses when you look at the shore across. Your nature has changed, your body has been deteriorated, you can see several unnatural trees behind the buildings that are placed carelessly, of course if you are lucky and you are condemned to watch always from the other shore this is what is sad.

First the forest burns, then the sea is filled, then the concretes are every like it is a dialectical process. And the same sentences from everybody as if they are unanimous “we didn’t do it (meaning that they didn’t burn)”, “absolutely we didn’t do it”, “no, no absolutely we didn’t do it”, then the defense types change, “we accept whatever the punishment is”, “we’ll pay whatever the price is” (the declaration of the MNG company upon they have filled the sea with ground. A permission for hotel in the forest was granted to two companies of MNG in the vicinity of Güvercinlik Village in the Pina Peninsula in Bodrum. A fire was broken out one year after. MNG filled the bay with ground in the same area). The authorities immediately adapted these new explanations in a second “it is not quite true to say that the forests should stay as forest” (Osman Pepe, former Minister of Forestry).
And you are condemned to have your photos taken in front of the concrete masses at the shore across… Really who fired the first sparkle?

2007