Category: Installation
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“Ottoman Princess”: Head Shots
More on the process behind my latest installation, “Have Your Photograph Taken as an Ottoman Princess” (with more background below in my previous posts. Most of ‘the Princesses’ are now beyond the sketching stage, getting onto the watercolor stage, and a few of them are on the computer already, getting ready to be blown up to life-size. For…
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A TYPE OF SKETCHING, A SKETCHING OF TYPE
(Preparations for the installation “Have Your Photograph Taken as an Ottoman Princess”) So, the goal was to have a bunch of different ‘types’ of women to represent the range of women that you might see on any day on any given street anywhere in Turkey. In fact, you probably wouldn’t see all of them on…
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Ottoman Princess : The Blog
Update: My latest installation – “Have Your Photograph Taken as an Ottoman Princess” – will be included in the upcoming Bodrum Biennial opening on 12 September. In addition to information about the project (in Turkish and English), the Ottoman Princess blog will post news about violence against women in general (unfortunately there is a lot…
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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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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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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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A Couple of Old Columns…
So, in my last post I was discussing strange shapes, or, more specifically, how I like to work in formats that are not in the usual Golden Mean of proportions – namely, squares, or columns. Lately, I have been working on a lot of vertical collages (just browse some of the earlier posts here), but…
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Homesickness (Sıla Hasreti) Installation
Homesickness (Sıla Hasreti) is the name of the installation I created with collaboration from a lot of other people, including Deniz Defne Acerol (sculptures) Hope Holtzman (tapestries) 26 students in the 4th-grade class of Jale Toprak, a teacher at Akyarlar Elementary school, whose students I have known since they were in the 1st grade,…
Deborah Semel Demirtaş 