Category: Collage
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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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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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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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Number 10
It is the time of year where it is warmer outside the house than it is inside the house. Still, it is not quite painting weather (the blessed shade is less blessed in April than in July), so instead of getting back to the Water Paintings (or following up on the urge to begin some […]
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Women in Art
The following pictures are from the installation titled ‘2000 Women’ from 2000 that featured 2000 drawings of naked women. The drawings were all copies of about 7 classic nude images from artists ranging from Reubens to Degas. After the exhibit, I thought that a better title might be ‘Backfired’. (unfortunately, best resolution I’ve got – […]
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Clearing up the mess…
I am sitting and waiting for my husband to wake up so we can have a late breakfast before he goes to work this afternoon and I go down to the Turgutreis Sevgi Yolu Sevgililer Panayır (very loosely translated to the Valentines Day Bazaar on Turgutreis’s Lover’s Lane). While clearing up the mess in my […]
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More long, tall art
As is wont these days, I will begin with full disclosure: These pieces are from last week. Since then, I’ve spent my time on 1. ‘engaging in paid work’ (boring); 2. developing a project (not boring, but definitely more left-brain than studio work); 3. visiting (sometimes I like to do that); and 4. (starting […]
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Long, Tall Art
I have always had an attraction to strange, regular shapes. Regular in that they are simple – squares and rectangles; Strange in that they don’t exactly fit the Golden Rules of proportions. Square paintings (like my Water Paintings) and long, tall collages like the ones I’m doing now are supposedly ‘hard to do’. Actually, I […]
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What’s Going On In My World
And the totals are in! OK, actually, I did not really do any quantitative data analysis – not in the spirit of fortunetelling, I don’t think; however, it did strike me as odd that the people who came to the Art Fortunetelling sessions (see here for details) kept turning up the same cards. What are […]
Deborah Semel Demirtaş 