Alpin Arda Bağcık in his contribution takes an icon from the Hagia Sophia as his starting point. The famous Vestibule Mosaic from the 10th Century depicts the Mother of God as a guardian figure. It was created after the periods of Byzantine Iconoclasm in the 8th and 9th Centuries, at a time when the veneration of images was once again permitted. Maria is portrayed sitting between models of the Hagia Sophia and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, thus as patron saint of Constantinople and Jerusalem. Since its erection in the year 537 A.D., the Hagia Sophia has served for centuries, in turns, as church, mosque, and museum. Since 2020, it is once again being used as a mosque. The icon is now veiled from view by a curtain. In a fanfold leaflet painted on both sides, Bağcık uses a technique of reproduction to show the icon in a series of increasingly faded copies. On one side, the image gradually vanishes to almost nothing, while on the other its colors come back stronger and stronger. History does not run a linear course: There are repetitions, and what is once hidden may re-appear later.