“The visual language in Tayfun Erdoğmuş’s art is shaped not only by the formal echoes of this geography’s visual heritage, but also by the presence of an inquisitive eye that examines tradition and the past both from within and from without. The sanctity of writing, the transformation of the spoken word into image, and the reading of text as an abstract sign of divine belief… In Erdoğmuş’s paintings—composed in a ‘natural’ alphabet of flowers and leaves that seem to conceal a sacred text—there is a powerful interpretation of the appearance, meaning, and impact of calligraphy as an art form that has become alien to us in the present day, here and now, following historical processes and identity quests lived out on these lands.”