Tag: violence
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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”: 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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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 – […]
Deborah Semel Demirtaş 