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Title: One Hundredth of a Second
Year: 2024
Material: Metal
Dimensions: 357 cm, 178 cm (installation)

Installed on a selected site in Kocabağ, a locality in the village of Avcılar in Edremit, this work attempts to make time visible in space by using real-time data from its geographic location. Representing the distance the sun would travel in one hundredth of a second at this specific spot, the installation consists of two parallel rods, placed in reference to imaginary meridians, forming a direct attempt at data visualization.

Although the distance between meridians varies depending on location, the time it takes the sun to travel from one meridian to another is generally accepted as 4 minutes, or 240 seconds. Given that the work is situated near the 39th parallel (coordinates: 39° 35′ 01″ N – 26° 48′ 36″ E), the distance between two meridians at this point is approximately 85,650 meters. Thus, the solar motion over a single second equals about 357 meters.

In this installation, the 3.57 meters—the distance the sun moves in one hundredth of a second at Kocabağ—is represented both in the horizontal space between the rods and in the sum of their vertical lengths.

While the chosen material responds sensitively to environmental conditions, the work also frames a transcendent natural landscape in which it is sited. Despite aiming to show nothing beyond what it measures, the piece inevitably opens itself up to other reflections, meanings, and contaminations from the world around it.