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Emroidered masks.

An attempt to recreate ritualistic pieces by sinking down inner self and taking out primal, instinctive patterns and colors.

Every stitch becomes a thought, an emotion.

Made with cotton embroidery thread, pine cone pieces, a sea shell and small beads.

The diameter of the embroidery frame is 20 cm.

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A series of handmade balaclavas.

A lack of rituals and communal gatherings in modern society make people isolated and hollow inside.

With these balaclavas I aim to wake the inner ritual power in dormant souls.

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Floral watercolor drawings

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Floral patterns.

mediums used: watercolors, markers, crayons.

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“Home Stings”,2013, Halka Art Project,Istanbul.

Sometimes home stings.It’s comfortable and warm,habitual,but it presses you down,gives you no space to be yourself.

“Ev Batar”, 2013, Halka Sanat Projesi

Ev bazen batar.Rahat ve sıcaktır,alışılagelmiştir ama üstüne gelir,içini daraltır.

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Winds,mountains,sea and grass.

Hand woven with a serene mind. 

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Bright sun and a child’s laughter.

Handwoven with a serene mind.

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A little totem.

Handwoven on a frame loom with a serene mind.

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Work in progress.

A fabric collage of an African woman.

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Zupilu 

My new embroidery work inspired by indigenous tribes.

Made on 13 cm hoop with crow feathers,seashell,beads and various threads.

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Here’s my new embroidery project Bapuli the Shaman.

This is a small hoop,13 cm-5″,worked with thin embroidery thread.The feathers are seagull and crow feathers found on the street.

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Floral embroidery based on my spontaneous drawing. On Etsy

It feels nice to slow down,

Filling the mind with every stitch,

One by one,

With,

A little thought,

A little song,

A little wonder.

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An exploratory embroidery work on shapes and textures.

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A piece I made for the exhibition “Stories from Our People” that took place in Halka Art Project,December 18, 2013–January 20, 2014.

“Wanderer” collects plants and herbs that catches his attention and  to research them afterwards he puts them in 3 little glass jars placed in his left inside (removable) pocket which includes a notebook. He enjoys the never ending cycle of life. To see this happening in front of his eyes and to contemplate about life in the evenings, he sprouts lentils, chickpeas or whatever he comes across, in the tubes placed on the left of his jacket. Since he likes to smoke pipe and tobacco, in the left sleeve pocket he carries his cigarettes and in the right chest pocket he carries his pipe and pipe tobacco. He likes to eat with his own fork and spoon, so he carries them in his right upper pocket. On the road he comes across all kinds of incidents, sometimes he finds food sometimes he can’t.Thus he carries chickpeas and lentils in the pouches that he himself sewn.

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“Bizim İnsanlarımızdan Hikayeler” sergisi için yaptığım çalışma.18 Aralık-20 Ocak tarihlerinde Halka Sanat Projesi’nde sergilendi.

“Dolaşan” yürürken,trende,hareket halinde dikkatini çeken bitkileri,otları toplar, daha sonra araştırmak üzere ceketinin sol iç cebinde 3 küçük kavanoz ve bir not defterinin yer aldığı, cekete ilikli portatif cebine koyar.

Yaşamın değişkenliği hoşuna gider, bunun gözleri önünde gerçekleştiğini seyretmek, akşamları hayat hakkında hülyalı düşüncelere dalmak için ceketinin sol bölmesindeki tüplerde  (üstündeyken sol) mercimek,nohut ne varsa filizlendirir. Pipo ve tütün içmeyi sevdiğinden kolayca ulaşabilmek için sol kolundaki cebinde tütününü, sağ göğsündeki cebinde de piposuyla pipo tütününü taşır. Biraz titiz biraz da nev-i şahsına münasır olduğundan kendi kaşık ve çatalıyla yemeyi sever ve bunları sağ üst cebinde taşır. Yoldayken türlü türlü olaylarla  karşılaşır, bazen yemek bulur,bazen bulamaz.Bu yüzden kendi diktiği keselerde nohut ve mercimek taşır.Ateş yakıp yolda bulduğu bir teneke kutuda onları pişirir.

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As industrialism is getting out of control,people are getting crammed up in the cities,working for their “created needs”. They’re forgetting their ancestors and roots and becoming assembly line productions of the society.

Keep remembering that: Nature can live without us but we cannot live without nature.

This project is a tribute to people who are still trying to live in tune with nature by traditions,rituals and respect. Unfortunately they suffer because of civilization’s consequences. I’m making a series of drawings in order to remember and be aware of who we “were”. Drawn with brush tip sharpies with image references mostly from National Geographic magazines from 70s.

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Tribal Kids No.2

Watercolor

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My new project “The Collector” was exhibited in Contemporary Istanbul, Halka Art Project pavillion.

The story of this project has begun with Cabinets of Curiosities which dates back to 1500s. The aristocrats and monarchs at the time would sponsor overseas voyages in search for exotic plants, unseen animals, mythical creatures and every kind of little object one can imagine.These findings were exhibited in cabinets with lots of drawers,shelves and hidden compartments.During the voyages stories of these findings were changing and becoming fictionalized.

When Halka Art Project initiated a project of revitalizing and adapting Cabinets of Curiosities in current time, I was involved in the project and began working immediately.

Reading various anthropological and ethnological voyage books, I had many ideas about how people reacted to the unseen environments and cultures, how the curious westerns affected and/or observed indigenous people who were living serenely on their own. You can read and download these books from archive.org and gutenberg.org :

-Growing up in New Guinea; a comparative study of primitive education,Margaret Mead

-Idle Days in Patagonia, William Henry

-Eskimo Life, Fridtjof Nansen

-My Life With Eskimo, Vilhjalmur Stefansson

-Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World, Mark Twain

-The Appendix : http://theappendix.net/issues/2013/7/inside-the-museum-of-natural-historys-hidden-masterpiece ( an article about  gatherers who worked for modern Cabinets of Curiosities that are Museums).

In addition: Cortés and Montezuma,Maurice Collis.

The result was a costume of a strong,open-minded and mobile expeditioner   woman who lived in early 1900s. Her costume is full of pockets filled with specimens of plants,seeds,stones,small tribal artwork,exchange material,moss,animal teeth etc. The pockets are detachable making the ingredients easy to access for further research.

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Yeni projem “Toplayıcı” Contemporary Istanbul kapsamında Halka Sanat Projesi bünyesinde sergilendi.Projenin hikayesi Nadire Kabineler ile başladı.Tarihi 1500'lü yıllara kadar dayanan Nadire Kabineler'de dünyanın herbir köşesinden, keşif veya ticaret yolculuklarında toplanan farklı hayvanlar, masalsı varlıklar, egzotik bitkiler ve akla gelebilecek türlü garip objeler bulunuyordu.Bu buluntular birtakım meraklı soyluların evlerinde birçok gözü olan dolaplarda sergileniyordu.Tabii yolculuklar esnasında buluntuların hikayesi dallanıp budaklanıyor, bitkiler hayvanlara, hayvanlar masalsı varlıklara dönüşüyordu.Halka Sanat Projesi Nadire Kabineler'i yeni zamanda farklı bir şekilde ortaya çıkartmak istediklerinde ben de bu konuya dahil oldum.Proje hazırlık aşamasında çeşitli antropolojik ve etnografik yolculuk kitapları okuyarak o zamanki uzun gemi yolculukları sonucunda karşılaşılan yeniliklere nasıl tepkiler verildiği, batılı meraklıların kendi halinde yaşayan küçük toplulukları nasıl etkilediği ve gözlemlediği konusunda bir takım fikirler edindim. Bu kitaplar archive.org sitesinden bedava olarak indirilip okunabilir:

-Growing up in New Guinea; a comparative study of primitive education,Margaret Mead

-Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World, Mark Twain-Idle Days in Patagonia, William Henry

-Eskimo Life, Fridtjof Nansen

-My Life With Eskimo, Vilhjalmur Stefansson

-Cortés and Montezuma,Maurice Collis

-The Appendix Dergisi: http://theappendix.net/issues/2013/7/inside-the-museum-of-natural-historys-hidden-masterpiece ( daha yakın zamana ait,ama aynı amaçlar için modern Nadire Kabineler yani müzelere toplayıcılık yapan kişiler hakkında bir makale)