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With this sculpture, two important cultural figures belonging to Anatolia were engraved and it was pointed out that the Anatolian civilisations, that lived on the same land at different times, were the successors and inheritors of each other. In the work, the folk hero Nasreddin Hodja, who is famous for riding his donkey upside down, is depicted riding a winged and double-headed Hittite lion.When glance at the general characteristics of the work, it can be seen that an abstract expression technique is used and the gist wanted to be given is reinforced with references to different elements. The materiality of the sculpture is strengthened with the geometric and sharp details used. The depiction of Nasreddin Hodja on a lion instead of a donkey, on the one hand, builds a bridge between different ages, on the other hand transforms Hodja into a figure of a "voyager travelling in time".
Nasreddin Hodja the Anatolian civilisations sculpture Anatolia Nasreddin