An excellent example of how an exaggerated manifestation of reality could explain a moment in time better than any realist work, is Eda Sarman's piece "spring's arrival wrapped the earth with mutation". In the spring of 2020, when the world was the first thrust into crises and lockdown, Sarman one morning decided to walk around Istanbul's deserted Emirgan Park, where usually the lanes and fields would be crowded by visitors to the Tulip Festival. People stayed away this year, yet the flowers bloomed anyway and filled the landscape with colour as far as the eye could see, almost in defiance of humanity's grasp on nature. By mimicking the overflow of tulips in her piece, Sarman captures the absurdity of the moment.