Category: Art
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“Karne” (Report Card
Half-finished Prismacolor sketch of the sea, just north of Foça Well, all the world’s school children are onto their summer holidays after getting their report cards for the year. In Turkey, the last day of school is the much-anticipated moment when your kids carry home their “karne” and parents celebrate the accomplishments of their offspring.…
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Fortune Week
“Art Fortunes” is continuing on Indiegogo – but there’s less than a week to go. Just click on the link to find out what it’s all about – and if you like what you see, please share the campaign… and Thanks!!
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Art+Fortunes=Art Fortunes
A while back I wrote my list of 10 ideas. Of course, as soon as I posted it, I realized that I had left one out. And it was a really important one, too. It involved the next step in an ongoing project of recycling paper by using it in collages and then using the…
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“Top 10 Ideas From Amongst Which At Least 1 Must Be Chosen Before Another Idea Is Had”
You may have noticed that I haven’t written anything in a while, and that I haven’t posted any pictures of nice-and-shiny artwork, or even rough-and-tumble work-in-progress. Of course, you may not have noticed, because you were busy doing things in the actual, three-dimensional world rather than (how shall I put this?) “spending time enjoying your…
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Re-furnishing…
Hey, I like that I am using a template of an old blog post for this post about recycling… Or is it refurbishing? More like refurnishing… It has been several months since the movers carted our stuff out of our place in Bodrum and up to our place in Foça. (Well, geographically up , but…
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Art Activity and Embodied Consciousness from Enrique Martinez Celaya
“I eliminated from my painting anything that anybody has ever said that I was good at. So if I was good at drawing, I took it out. If I was told I had facility with color, I took it out. And then I said, “Well, if I give up all these things, what is painting,…
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Decisions, Decisions…
One of the things I’ve been wondering about lately is how we make decisions. Actually, one of the big questions for me is how we decide what we’re going to believe, but that’s way too big for me to take up here. The much smaller, but still very interesting, question I’ve been thinking…
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My Holiday Presents to You
As the media reports on Black Friday pointed out so emphatically, the holiday season is upon us. Need I list them all? I don’t think so… If you’re among the anxiety-prone and you’ve already begun fretting over the proper response to ‘Merry Christmas’ (as I get wished in Turkey) if you aren’t Christian (I’m not), or ‘Happy Winter Solstice’ (as…
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Severed Heads
This beautiful work by an art student in New York and my wish to share it with you has finally put an end to my procrastination. After the hectic energy and motion involved in getting together my most recent bit of installation art, “Have Your Photograph Taken as an Ottoman Princess”; followed by total paralysis in…
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“Ottoman Princess”: 9 Lives
So I suppose I ought to post ‘the princesses’. These are the 9 sketches that are being transformed into life-sized models as we speak (well, ok, it’s 8 o’clock on a Saturday night, so there is probably no one at Show Reklam working at this very moment – but Monday afternoon I’m supposed to go…
Deborah Semel Demirtaş 