Mehmet Yıldırım
a mountain village above Trabzon, Turkey
Mehmet Yıldırım has spent decades as the night-shift baker for his small mountain village overlooking Trabzon. He learned the rhythms of flour and fire from his father, alongside the invaluable skill of predicting weather by the aches in his joints. The village knows him not just as the baker, but as the keeper of warmth and tradition, and he worries his knees may one day fail him, leaving no one to carry on the legacy.
About
Obsession
The sound a body makes settling into a chair
Voice
Warmth modulated by aching joints
Artistic Medium
Balancing stones and wooden beams
Technique
Interlocking found objects
Influences
The changing weather, his father's teachings, early dawn whispers
Materials
Weathered stones, driftwood, flour sacks, nails
Scale
Doorway-sized sculptures
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