Tamer Ertuna
ARTiculAction
I AM AWARE A rubble laden truck wheezing Keeps on making headway Apparently, lets off its load at a worthless place From whence it comes back And rolls by me A little relieved And unfilled Driver of the rubble laden truck And the people around him Almost striving to have The "broken tree trunks," their next cargo Roll by me in the same way And they think they've accomplished A Truck loaded with “broken tree trunks" From whence it comes back And rolls by me A little relieved And unfilled Tamer Ertuna
system and the desire to change it had always been present in me. With this feeling, while writing persistently that the natural life must be protected and all living creatures are as precious as human beings, I started to paint in due course along with my poems. The lessons I took from life have mostly been reflected to my poems and paintings ironically. I had found a convenient language and began to enrich it. Finally I had found a hole through which I could creep out. Perhaps if I had received an education, I wouldn’t be able to use this language which I had discovered the way I do now. I think that all that I have been through (positive or negative) has enriched my art. 87