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“şimendifer", a borrowed word from French (“chemin de fer”), literally means “iron road” and was the Ottoman Turkish word for “railroad” or “locomotive.”  

And, "şimendifer" is an art project through which I design and build conceptual structures.  Blending the mechanical into the organic, I use old watch parts and wood of any kind to achieve a visually aesthetic result.  

While referring to the past with the name of the project and using pieces of past technology like mechanical watch parts and conventional materials like wood, I seek to create an alternate reality, like any steampunk design.

My work translates this conceptual alternate reality into tangible objects, but it still produces pieces that do not "work" literally as machines do; they “work” visually.

Spider
Spider
Structure-I
Structure-II or Not a mouse mouse

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