Güzel Sanatlar Enstitüsü Dergisi

Öz

The
concepts of life and time are hidden in the eternity and sky compositions of
carpet art, which is an important part of Turkish culture, because the most
important awareness of human beings is life and time which cannot be repeated.
Although the value of life and time is not known for most people when they are
young, the concepts of life and time are more important in the stage of the sun
turning into the sunset. What life and time are for the person who knows and
thinks to see can be observed in many events in the sky and life. "Those
who cannot feel the touch of the line between sunrise and sunset, live life
like other creatures." In the phases of the moon in the sky, or in the
appearance of a crescent moon, or on a leaf falling in autumn; it is possible
to see life itself under the effect of increasing and decreasing again from the
point where it started. Because the amount of life is like a semicircle with a
changing line and each life has its own time. Life can be thought of as a
certain path, life on this path, and time as the time from the beginning to the
end. The concepts of life and time are stable and stationary, such as the
square, and life is part of the unchanging stable structure of time. On the
path drawn by life, movement, activities and stagnations are experienced with
different effects in time and concepts that change in life occur within each
life span.

In Turkish carpet art, the awareness of life and time
seen from the Seljuks to the present day has been seen with different
compositions featuring sky, star patterns and motifs shaped by emotions and
thoughts as the sky represents infinite time, greatness and power. The eternity
is the fundamental thought in Turkish carpet art compositions. Infinity that
gains meaning in the middle ground and awareness that life cannot go beyond the
known stable structure of life is patterned within the stable area of squares
and rectangles.