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Symbols

It has been again a lot of time since the last time I had something to write. I am terribly sorry for that! Not because this blog has thousands of followers and I do let them down by not writing BUT it is because I lose easily my self discipline! And I, after all these years, find myself again as I used to be when I was in high school. The very same girl who waited until the last day before the big exam for studying and learning everything by heart! The thing is that I was very good in doing that! I would simply study the headlines and get one of the best grades amongst my classmates.  And I never, never had discipline! BUT always have been one of the best!!! 

Of course, this attitude or let say habit, becomes a part of you and you live like that for all your life. And that's me!!! 

So, today after a long time I went to ARTS-IN and Meral was there. After kissing and hugging each other, she reminded me of the two projects that are about to start. One was ''That's Where I Go'' and the other one was '' Symbols''...

I was not in the mood and didn't know what to do but still I sat down and tried to find something. I went through the pages of some books and magazines. And after doing some exercises I came out with this: 

I think this work incorporates different kinds of symbols. It has geometric symbols which have different meanings in different parts of the world. And on top of everything it has writings which ARE symbols themselves! To be honest I loved this work of mine and I will create a set of this kind of work in different colors. 

Hope you like it! 

From ARTS-IN Today...

Oh my GOD!!! Time really flies!!! Flies sooo fast! I can't even remember when was the last time I posted something on my blog. I will check that detail soon but it is NOT because I am lazy. Well to be honest I like to have some lazy days, like everybody else, but this time it was not because I had unplugged myself! I was not in the mood of doing anything. All I could do was to sit down and watch the TV, the only channel that showed the manifestations against government. And in the evenings I wanted to be there in TAKSİM, at the GEZİ PARK to support young people standing for the tress and for their rights. I stood with them. And the violent police attacked with tear gas, pressured water and all imaginable legal/illegal chemicals...That's true!!! Chemicals!!! That's a shame! And everything started with trees. Young people started to sleep in the last park of the city centre in order to keep the digging machines out of the park.  Because there is a horrible project of building another shopping mall in the place where now we have the last park of our city centre. After some days, in very early morning, police attacked them, destroying their tents and burning down some of their belongings. That was hursh!!! So people of Istanbul, wanted to be with them to support them. And everything turned into a series of protests against our government, especially PM ERDOGAN! To be clear with you, I have NEVER seen any government as hungry as this is! They destroy everything for the sake of the money.
They sold everything we have: Mines, coastal areas, forests, factories, other industrial entities... Anything that could be turned into money, had been sold until today. They are building everywhere... They are killing our nature. Literally!!! So I was not in the mood of doing anything else...
Bu today, I went to ARTS-IN... Ohhh!!! That was good! I saw MERAL and TURKAN. They were there painting and listening to music. I joined them and did some very poor watercolor things...I can hardly call them paintings so I just say things. So here they are:

This is Triopia, where we stayed with Osman

BlueI

BlueII

Abstract Blue

Asemic From Big Sketch Book Mix Media

Istanbul Mail Art Project is over... And a beautiful MAIL ARTWORK arrived today...My first personal mail artwork...HAPPY!!!

Today at ARTS-In Istanbul we had a different day. Generally we have a very cheerful atmosphere in the gallery and we are always in a very very positive mood. Bu today was somehow different. You could feel it!!!  We were happy-cheerful  and sad at the same time... We were happy because our gallery had been enlightened with precious artworks from all over the world for more than two weeks. Seeing all those beautiful, clever, shocking, unique, classical, modern, abstract, conceptual artworks around us, on our walls, pouring upon us from our ceiling has been an incredible experience for all of us. But we were sad at the same time because it was all over!!! Meral carefully took down all artworks from their places. She collected them, one by one in a very beautiful dossier. That is going to be our ''mail art archives''. That even can be the first corner stone of our dream ''mail art museum'' :)) So here are some pictures from this special day of ours. Thank you to all!!! 

Meral taking down the artworks

Meral putting everything in a dossier

Our mail art archives

Türkan, happy... I LOVE OIL PAINTİNG smile!

Still happy

Another subject now:
Today is a special day for me! Because I received my first ''personal'' mail art piece... Keith S. Chambers sent me a very impressive artwork and a package of goodies... Things like stamps, cigar labels and some headlines from newspapers...I am definitely going to use them for my artworks...Thank you Keith!!! YOU WILL ALWAYS BE SPECIAL FOR ME! 
So here are some pictures of this first mail art arrived today...

Front

Back

Envelope

Goodies