Contour is not the pure edge of form,
but a residue of contact and pressure: 
days layered, weight returning, surfaces adjusting to each other.

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Contour is presence eroded into matter
memory that does not fade,
distance that does not recede.

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The quiet intimacy of shaping and being shaped
by what holds us.

Fulya Pınar works across drawing, poetry, and ethnography, tracing the subtle architectures of life lived in motion. She teaches anthropology at Middlebury College.