This is the interview contract for the people who make contemporary Türkiye visible. We are publishing the questions before the answers because a format should reveal its values.
1. What material taught you to slow down?
2. Which tradition do people wrongly assume you are preserving?
3. What part of your labour disappears in the finished object?
4. Where does imitation end and inheritance begin?
5. What have you refused to make, even when it would sell?
6. Which local skill is one generation from disappearing?
7. What would staying independent require next year?
The point is not to make craft picturesque. It is to make labour, authorship and choice visible.
