Yazmas atım Yağmur

Yañılmas bilge Yañku

The archer that never misses is Rain
The sage that never mistakes is Echo

Mahmut of Kashgar, the great Turkish linguist who lived in the 11th century A.D., penned this phrase (*) when his brain did coo it from gosh, the Divine Reason.

A millennium later, Doğan Türker rendered that citation with ancient or.okh-khu.ng (Orkhun) script, accompanied by a clipped and retouched photograph from National Geographic.

When finished, he did im.ag.ine the text depicted overhanging storm clouds, flashes of lightning, raindrops and traveling sound waves with their ’es (echoes).