Site Specific Installation
Electroluminescent dyes, metal , fresnel light, codding
Sultanhanı Caravanserai, Aksaray

The first community brought together by the Sultan Han caravanserai was the community of traveling architects and masons who were gathered for its initial construction. Scratch, focuses on this community of workers. On her first visit to Sultan Han Tunc known for her site-specific works, was drawn to the symbols engraved on the walls. These symbols are faintly engraved, almost invisible if you do not look carefully. These carvings can be perceived as ordinary, recent scratches on the walls, appearing to purposely hide themselves. However, they represent the social identities of the mosons who constructed the monument. In fact, these scratches are the only physical traces that prevented their identities from becoming totally anonymized in the final architectural product. These symbols alone, engraved on the caravanserai s walls at the time of its construction by the hands of the builders themselves, preserve ideas of self-identification within the worker community in a tangible form to the present day. In Scratch, these symbols are brought together and reproduced in metal in a new architectural intervention in the space.