Âvâre

Âvâre, a Persian word, describes one who wanders without a place. Sami gives a second sense too: someone idle, without work, left inactive.

The word moves between two kinds of displacement: having no place to arrive, and having no task to return to.

In the Mestûr collection, words from Şemseddin Sami’s Kâmus-ı Türkî reappear as singular artworks on their own historic pages, carrying language, memory, and gesture into the present.

Technical details
- ink on an original 125-year-old Kâmus-ı Türkî dictionary page.
Size: [height × width] cm
Dictionary reference: Page [number], [column] column, line [number]
Year: 2026
Presentation: Sold and shipped unframed.