Tugrul Cankurt, an art teacher, paralysed from his neck down, opened his exhibition named “Benim Denizim / The Sea Inside” in Nurol Art Gallery. Cankurt, whose life was fully changed after the accident, told that “The Sea Inside” is a Spanish movie made in 2004. At the same dates, I was in the hospital for the same reasons. When I watched the movie a year later, I thought that the fact that we thought and said the same things is because we are human. The “sea” of both of us was the same.”
Cankurt stated that he lay on his back for a long while after the accident and he said that “One day they tied a brush to my arm and put a canvas in front of me. The brush only rustled on the canvas. Then I was able to draw lines from top to bottom with the help of gravity. Sometimes I gave up, then I tried again and again. I don’t know whether my works are artworks or not, but the first rustling of the brush turned into a symphony for me.