İstimrâr

İstimrâr is continuation: the condition of something that keeps going. It does not name a single act, but what happens when an act refuses to end and becomes duration.

On a dictionary page that has itself persisted for more than a century, the word becomes almost self-referential.

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.