Gone Are The Sand Tulips
Personal memory by Pinar Erturan
1990 CE • Samsun, Turkey
My hometown Samsun, Turkey is the ancient home of the Amazons. It sits on the shore of the Black Sea and used to have expansive sandy beaches. Now there are roads where the beaches once stood and gone are the once numerous sand tulips that used to grow on the sand.
Memory submitted at Maya Lin: A Study of Water, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, 2022
Image: Eyimuratcan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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