Turkey

Istanbul seduces first, then tightens its grip—a city of beauty, speed, faith, noise, and appetite, all pulling in opposite directions at once. I walked its streets sensing both promise and threat, a place generous with wonder but always ready to swallow you whole if you stop paying attention.

Dream of Elsewhere lives in that tension, where attraction and disorientation coexist and the city becomes a mirror of our own unresolved hopes and longings.