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,
and artists from Turkey (Istanbul, Balıkesir, Antalya, Bodrum), Spain, Iceland and the US, who sent original mail art that arrived via traditional post n time for the exhibit, which was held at the Şevket Sabancı Culture Center in Turgutreis-Bodrum from 18-28 November 2014. You can download the catalog here:
Sıla Hasreti Homesickness PPS Catalog
Anyone interested can also contact me for the audio file of students reading their poetry (in Turkish).
Deborah Semel Demirtaş 