title: three mirrors
form: computer printout – photocopy text – notation, photographic arrangement, a modified pre-made object. (3 pieces)
Dear Hakan of mine Akçura,
I’m sending you three mirrors.
The first one is a real mirror. Whoever looks at you, it will reflect you.
The second one is a “strange but true” story. I had found some discarded film frames beside a garbage can after leaving a theatre where I watched a silent Polish movie, and used them as a decoration material in my study for a long time. Then one day a friend of mine printed one of those frames. It was a stunning panoramic battle field photograph with thousands of extras. It adorned my wall beside the poster of the movie “Orchestra Rehearsal” for years. Every now and then I stood in front of it, looking at its details, relaxing my mind. One day I noticed in it a group of commanding officers watching the battle on a far hill. I magnified that photograph by a photocopy machine many times. Now I am sending as the second mirror the magnified portion of one of said commanding officers in that “officers watching the battle” photograph. I draw your attention to the fact that he resembles your image in the mirror. He is a Prussian officer.
The third mirror is a detail from a dream of yours and a film of yours. It is the transcription of a game of chess, played in Hungary in 1955, edited many times because I used it in a scenario I wrote.
- e4 - e5
- d4 - e x d4
- Q x d4 - K c6
- Q e3 - K f6
- K c3 - B b4
- B d2 - O - O
- O - O - O - R e8
- B c4 - d6
- f3 - K e5
- g4 - K c4
- B x c4 - B x c4
- g5 - B c5
- Q f4 - K d7
- h4 - b5
- b3 - B a3
- King b1 - R b8
- h5 - Q e7
- B h3 - b4
- g6 - f x g6
- h x g6 - h6
- K f2 - R f8
- Q g3 - b x c3
- B x h6 - Bx b3
- a x b3 - Q e5
- Q h3 - R x b3
- King a2 - R b2
- King a1 - R b6
- B e3 - B b2
- King b1 - B c1
- King x c1 - R b1
- King x b1 - Q b5
- King c1 - Q b2
- MATE
Love
Ahmet
