I said dream, I said dream

The author's world is mostly Diyarbekir writings...

One day, he will paint a picture and paint upside-down tulips on a large piece of drawing paper in front of him.

A variety of colors are waiting to be put on the canvas, he chooses three colors; yellow red and green then adds brown next to it.

Thinking that a flower should also have a stem.

He picks up a paintbrush for the first time since his school years.

He doesn't understand painting at all, he waits for an upside down tulip as he paints. However, he had never seen an inverted tulip until that day.

The painting is finished, and when the art teacher pins everyone's pictures on the wall, it is realized that the cold and gloomy weather of Europe showed itself in the papers of everyone who was there that day.

Gray, pale blue, pastel green at most, white wrinkled dull dull colors.

The upside-down tulips painted on paper by Ayşe Sökülmez not only give a strange warmth to the room, but they also give everyone a feeling of homesickness, like a terrible typical European cold.

Without exaggeration, everyone in that room that day forgot their own story and went to the mountains of Hakkari, asked questions for minutes, asked them to tell it, as if they were forgetting their own stories!

“I have never seen an inverted tulip, neither there nor anywhere else.” He says and adds; “The only thing I have seen is in Diyarbakır, when I was seven years old, I saw a solar eclipse on Direkhane Street. With cans in their hands, my mother, my sister, my brothers, my aunts, my father, my uncles, and the neighbors turned their faces towards the sunrise and over the other side of the walls, praying some prayers until the sun showed itself, screaming and stealing cans again, as if we had saved the sun from the darkness.”

Here, Ayşe Sökülmez talked about what she had accumulated in her first book titled “I Said a Dream, I Said a Dream”. The rest is up to the reader...