Month: July 2015

• Arts Administration (Readying the Ottoman Princess)

  

  I think the blues have won. No, I don’t mean I’m sad: I mean the feedback from Facebook about which image would make the best Ottoman Princess was leaning to the lady above. (In the final version, I’ll incorporate some yellow and red into the scarf around her waist, and the style will be more […]

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  July 10, 2015

  Art, Bodrum, Collage, Contemporary Art, Installation, Violence, Women

  art, Bodrum, Bodrum Biennial, collage, contemporary art, Deborah Semel Demirtaş, installation art, landscape, Ottoman Princess, Violence against Women, women

• Medium Practice (For Ayni)

  This post is for Ayni, who liked my little notebooks and wanted to know if she could buy something and have me send it to the Netherlands. Besides just being a wonderful person, Ayni will always have a place in my heart for introducing me to someone who could ask me “In what medium do […]

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  July 6, 2015

  Aesthetics, Art, Bodrum, Contemporary Art, Installation

  Akyarlar, art, Art Windows, assemblage, bird, Bodrum, Catal Ada, contemporary art, Cos, cotton, Deborah Semel Demirtaş, Drawing, environment, installation, landscape, mixed media, nude, oil pastel, Painting on Paper, pomegranate

• Water Collages

  So, here we are, quite in the Throes of Summer, and my plans for hanging out in the ‘outdoor section of my studio’ and working on more of the Water Paintings have been thwarted by a. computer problems; b. developing a project for the ‘2015 Bodrum Biennial’; c. doing menial labour to raise funds in re: […]

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  July 4, 2015

  Art, Bodrum, Collage, Contemporary Art, Decoration

  art, Bodrum, collage, Deborah Semel Demirtaş, environment, paper, Sarıkopek, water