Ayten Pehlivan
January 2026
Recent book publication - In Motion
There is this comfort in letting the self float, carried, as the wish to control dissipates through the limbs, head falls on the window, vibrations vigorously enforce the thoughts surface, within the boundaries of a carriage, the train vesselling the passenger.
The window becomes a permeable membrane, the passengers silhouette transparent, the passing moments declare independence from time, though inevitably the earth dries, moistens, frosts, cracks and composts the detritus, earthworms appear naked eroded by the rainfall. Illusive sunrise and the night, threaded between two stations, arrival and destination. In certain movement, the being is In Motion, directionless, in a never-ending loop.