Tag: Turgutreis
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Happy New Year: Get Back to Work!
I took the original photos from the piece I exhibited in Foça during another fishing expedition with Harun. (I’ve been tagging along much more rarely, and these days I tend to take a camera instead of drawing supplies.)
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Valentine’s Day Open Studio
So, a friend of mine mentioned an artist she read about who was trying to survive on donations she was soliciting as a means of support for her art-making. I’m guessing that if she’s doing this through a crowdfunding web site, she’s “giving away” pieces of artwork as “gifts” to the folks making these donations. I suppose that…
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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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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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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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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…
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Return to the Museum
When in Ankara, the most important thing to do – the only really important thing to do – is to stop at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations. This is definitely one of the best museums in the world. And it has provided me with tons of inspiration. This piece – I called it ‘The Turkey…
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18 December in Ankara : International Migrants’ Day / Homesickness (?)
If you’re in Ankara, I’d love to see you… On the occasion of “18 ARALIK ULUSLARARASI GÖÇMENLER GÜNÜ”, the Bodrum Kaymakam’s Office invited me, along with 4 other ‘yabancı‘, to attend an evening event at the Vali Galip Demirel Vilayetler Evi / Gölbaşı-ANKARA. We’ll be showing off the contributions to society made by the Migrants…
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Look Into My Crystal Ball (…er, collage…)
It’s close to the end of another calendar year – what a better time to give a good once-over to the studio, getting all those papers in order… or at least clear off enough work space so that I can get back to work. First up: a watercolor drawing for the Emanetçiler web page. And…
Deborah Semel Demirtaş 