Tag: environment
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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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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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Wisteria Books
So, I made these books last month, see? Back when the wisteria was in full bloom here in Bodrum. Here we call it “Mor Salkım” – in other words, “Hanging Purple”. Boy, it was just hanging all over – I even followed Fadime’s advice and made some Wisteria Jam – believe it, or not. I […]
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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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A Rambling Post After a Long Winter…
Is there a word that means what happens after hibernation? If there is, that is what’s happening here, in Bodrum, in my house. Built as a ‘summer paradise’, it can be a winter hell. Not because there is nothing to do – as many a lady, tired of endless handicraft courses, may opine – but […]
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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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Mail me some Art!
Well, I said I wasn’t going to do anything else in the studio until after I got back from New York, what with needing to prepare for my gig at Olana and such, but I just had to finish a little piece of mail art so I can get it to Argentina before the 31 […]
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Lokma
Not to be confused with “lokum” – also known as “Turkish Delight” – “lokma” is a fried dough dessert that looks like a doughnut hole and is frequently handed out as an “offering” food in commemoration for a person’s passing or other life-event. How many years ago was it that I took a photo of […]
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And One From Column Number Three…
“Connection Lost” is the message I get, explaining why I can’t upload pictures of the latest “column collage”. I fact, I have been able to upload a picture of the whole collage, but it is really so long and narrow that it is hard to take in all the details at once (hence the reference […]
Deborah Semel Demirtaş 