Tag: Deborah Semel Demirtaş
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Swimming in the Same Waters
I was taking a break from whatever it is I was taking a break from by having a look at one of my few ‘favorite’ web sites, hyperallergic.com, when what to my surprise should appear before my eyes but a paintng by Katherine Bradford, Surfer, from 2015: “Hey,” I thought, I coulda done that!” It […]
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The Sea in January
Last summer I managed to fit in one boat trip, but that’s all. While the primary goal was to chill out in some very clean blue water in the company of some very fine women, the secondary goal was to take photos that I could use as sketches for some more water paintings. Which I did. Take […]
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Predictions, Predictions
Since I came back from New York in October, I’ve maintained the policy of turning on the news as infrequently as possible. Regardless, it is getting to be that time of year when the tv news shows are full of prognosticators called in to reveal what we should all be expecting for the coming year. Last year, […]
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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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Princesses at the Castle
Have you had a chance to see my piece “Have Your Photograph Taken as an Ottoman Princess” on exhibit at the Bodrum Castle as part of the 2nd International Bodrum Biennial? Well, you won’t any time soon – despite the fact that my name is still on the list of participating artists on the biennial […]
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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 […]
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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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