{"id":5757,"date":"2026-01-31T09:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/?p=5757"},"modified":"2026-02-02T09:33:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T09:33:26","slug":"ashbat-esra-bozdag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/ashbat-esra-bozdag\/","title":{"rendered":"ASHBAT \/ ESRA BOZDA\u011e"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ASHBAT <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adelma is a city that appears ordinary and orderly on the surface, yet when one looks into the faces of its inhabitants, the silhouettes of deceased loved ones are reflected back. This unsettling familiarity renders the city both recognizable and deeply estranged, as memory and presence become entangled. While Adelma maintains a rigid and static spatial order, its inhabitants are no longer fully human; they have transformed into beings shaped by the absence of the emotions that once defined them. Each night, Ashbat emerges from the underground city beneath Adelma. Winged and shadow-like, Ashbat moves silently through the urban fabric, absorbing from the inhabitants the full spectrum of emotions that make one human\u2014joy, sorrow, fear, desire, and longing. These emotions pass through Ashbat\u2019s body, becoming a raw emotional essence that is carried into the multilayered subterranean city. By extracting not only positive emotions but the entirety of emotional experience, Ashbat allows the surface beings to settle into their altered and authentic forms. The underground city functions as a vast emotional archive organized into three primary zones. Within these zones, emotions collected from the surface are filtered, stratified according to their intensity, and gradually stabilized over time. Emotions that can be retained are preserved as fragments of memory, while excessive and destabilizing residues are separated from the system. At the deepest level lies a dark void into which Ashbat releases the most destructive emotions\u2014guilt, envy, resentment, and hatred\u2014preventing them from resurfacing and disrupting Adelma\u2019s fragile balance. Shaped by Ashbat\u2019s cyclical movement, this underground architecture operates not merely as infrastructure but as a living system that preserves the city\u2019s emotional memory. The fragile order of Adelma\u2019s surface endures only through this invisible and continuously functioning archive below. Ashbat exists neither as a villain nor a savior, but as the silent custodian of balance that allows the city to persist.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6007\" src=\"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-poster-742x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"681\" height=\"940\" srcset=\"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-poster-742x1024.jpeg 742w, http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-poster-218x300.jpeg 218w, http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-poster-768x1059.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-poster-1114x1536.jpeg 1114w, http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-poster.jpeg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6008\" src=\"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-1-1-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-1-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-1-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-1-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-1-1.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6010\" src=\"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-2-1-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-2-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-2-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-2-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-2-1.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6011\" src=\"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-3-1-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-3-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-3-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-3-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-3-1.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5763\" src=\"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-p.heic\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5763\" src=\"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/esra-p.heic\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5759\" src=\"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BOZDAG-P.heic\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5760\" src=\"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/BOZDAG-P-1.heic\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASHBAT Adelma is a city that appears ordinary and orderly on the surface, yet when one looks into the faces of its inhabitants, the silhouettes of deceased loved ones are reflected back. This unsettling familiarity renders the city both recognizable and deeply estranged, as memory and presence become entangled. While Adelma maintains a rigid and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f25-arch101"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5757"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6012,"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757\/revisions\/6012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archworks.agu.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}