tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67712617356498383002024-02-19T17:12:54.861+00:00Angle of R3poseShows, exhibitions and reviews of works by Joan EdlisUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-14447009240982252482013-08-02T09:00:00.000+00:002013-11-09T19:41:44.793+00:00Once Upon a Tide - the video<br />
Captures the hard work and joy of this past week's residency.<br />
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A beautiful day (forgot to take a shot from my window)<br />
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Lucy and I get to work to finish the install - all the hard bits of the ceiling.<br />
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Joe, son of new neighbours Janice and Ben, appears, all 5'11" of him to help as well.<br />
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With his superior arm reach on the ladder leaving me gratefully on the sidelines, I get to work on the Tide drawings. The tray of sea water and gouache I dip the paper into, layering washes, with drying time in between dips.<br />
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Magnets hold the paper to the cast iron stair.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A strong easterly so no flapping at all. Clear sun accelerates drying as well.<br />
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I created this image and Caroline printed out copies to post all over town<br />
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This is the middle room of the tower where Laurens Van der Post spent many years writing.<br />
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I've installed a photo still from Woody Allen's film Zelig, solely because it shows the elaborate multi-user stethoscope used in training medical students - a group 'hear'. I know there is an engraved illustration somewhere but could not recall where.<br />
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Next to this is a vintage stethoscope, again, an eBay find.<br />
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Finally, after staying up until 1am last night securing monofilament to the watch crystals, tonight I affixed one end of the monofilament to a small magnet and left it resting it on the concave surface of the watch crystal (magnets can jump at minimum 2") to cure overnight. This is the last installation to do tomorrow, tying the other end of the monofilament to a looped wire I hope to press into the window frame. A strip of self-adhesive white-painted steel tape will secure the magnet end so the crystals shouldn't rotate on the monofilament. the piece is poetically titled 'Full moon the colour of the sea, new moon the colour of the sky' or something along these lines.<br />
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The final result of the paper hanging exercise is rather amazing.<br />
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Though camouflaged, the fireplace still makes a ghostly presence.<br />
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10.00 Friday sees me at the framers to mount some drawings for hanging in the house (and perhaps to sell?); Lucy and I tackle the installing the Moon work; Eileen arrives mid-morning to take more footage for a video documenting this effort; Sam and Jane leave after a dry-run of the stethoscope out to the sea action, and friends start arriving for the opening at 18.00 and dinner at 19.30 that Caroline is producing for 30 people! What a whirlwind of activity in 4 days! <br />
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The first thing Lucy and I do is to install the scrim work in the top tower room.<br />
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Stretched tightly against the sides of the projecting bay, this speciality textile is normally used to line old canvas during conservation. But its very stable weave of a synthetic fibre means it has low elasticity so that when stretched its weave does not lose its straight of grain and it stays square and true. The result is satisfyingly magical; light plays on the surface, dimly revealing the merest shadows of the winds beyond; the sounds leaking into the tower from the outside world are pushed far into the distance. I am very pleased with this.<br />
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Next up is the transformation of the boathouse itself. I do a trial run of yarn stapled to the timber lined space, then draped with folded sheets of graph paper like a clothes line.<br />
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This required much folding of the reams found on eBay. A good task while it rains. Francis helps competently, amusing us with stories of when he was a bank clerk, adding columns of figures by hand.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lucy and I start in stretching and stapling the lines to the walls, here across the front of the fireplace.<br />
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By evening the skies have cleared and it is a beautiful evening. </div>
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Sam and Jane, friends of Caroline and Francis, are staying for a few nights and we decide to dine inside the installation. After scrambling all day, I have a quick shower and join everyone for a glass of excellent fizz on the beach, courtesy of Sam<br />
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Once again, Caroline conjures a feast with no apparent effort. <br />
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A spectacular array of fresh seafood on greens - prawns, dressed crab and hot smoked salmon, followed by a spinach risotto bejewelled with a whole brie.<br />
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In the back, here and above, a fully clothed wall of paper is just visible.<br />
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First day of residency here in Aldeburgh at Caroline Wiseman's South Lookout. I am working in the low white boathouse at the foot of the three-level tower. From inside the boathouse, a low window looking north.<br />
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The shingle beach has very small stones furthest from the North Sea's edge.</div>
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The Artist's bedroom, in an eyrie by itself, where I am staying for the week.<br />
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Late afternoon view out my window overlooking King Street, </div>
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and then towards the open sea. </div>
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As I'd imagined, the colours of sky and water are what I am trying to capture in gouache.<br />
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Each vintage watch face crystal is a different colour, but composed only of white, a green and a blue.<br />
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Also to be used for my tide drawings, where I am dipping water colour paper into the sea multiple times to affect the paper's surface. Or so I thought, as this is last I saw of the tray holding several sheets as it floats off from the shore and is swept away by the force of the waves! So sorry to lose your tray, Caroline!<br />
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Instead, I get a small bucket of sea water and start over, just saturating paper and letting it dry. Will be continuing this until Thursday when I must do the drawing to get them to the framer spot on 10.00 Friday to mount.<br />
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Caroline cooking dinner at her fabulous Aga.<br />
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The lovely Lucy, newly graduated from Loughborough (with a First!) who I am happy is interning for this week, learning about how galleries work from Caroline and how artists work in residencies from me. She is carrying one of Caroline's visual feasts to<br />
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Francis, sitting at the dinner table set up on the beach.<br />
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What could be a more delightful setting?<br />
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And this is what Aldeburgh is all about. <br />
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Sat with candles until about 22.00, meeting new neighbours, one of whose son's, Joe, is looking to do art at school when he starts in the Autumn. He has been easily persuaded to assist me in installing inside the boathouse. Lucy, you now have an assistant!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-23826364676934316352013-06-25T08:27:00.000+00:002013-07-12T08:30:10.328+00:00Centre for Recent Drawing exhibitionEasy installation as my friend Christine helped me manage the huge drawings up to my old studio space. Each sheet weighs in at just over a kilogram, or over 2 1/4 lbs - 6 sheets are a floppy, unwieldy 6kg or 13+lbs. They had to be carried flat.<br />
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Arriving at the space we find Roisin, who manages the space, scrubbing the bathroom it to within an inch of its life, as promised:<br />
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Very helpful interns Will and Michael looking at the chimney breast...<br />
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and measuring with the spirit level to get things relatively horizontal. Good thing it was them going up and down the ladder.<br />
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Jason Hicklin, my printmaking tutor, clued me into how to hang heavy sheets. The trick is to remove the springy bit of the clamp.<br />
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This leaves a very clean unobtrusive bit.<br />
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When I trialled this at home the paper was so heavy it kept slipping out of the clamp. What to do? Ah, a quick dig in my storage bins revealed a non-slip foam rubber matting, normally used for bar trays on which freshly washed glasses drain, and used in a prior work, <a href="http://r3pose.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-min=2008-01-01T00:00:00Z&updated-max=2009-01-01T00:00:00Z&max-results=1" target="_blank"><i>Confessional</i> </a>.<br />
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Carefully trimmed to size and slipped within the clamp's jaws, the heavy sheets stay in place.<br />
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Tiny (1.5 mm diam) hardened steel headless nails I found in Paris five years ago are the perfect, albeit somewhat brittle, 'hook' upon which to hang the clamped drawings. And a final shot of Christine against the drawings for scale.<br />
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I didn't take enough shots of the installation process but here is the interview with Simon Wilson:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-48160687950088797962013-05-26T18:51:00.001+00:002013-05-26T18:51:46.568+00:00Art Scene 2.0 - a copper kissThe area around Istanbul Modern is called Tophane. Close to water's edge it nonetheless looks landward. Small streets are starting to fill with uberhip coffee shops and galleries between the motorcycle repair shops and other hardware stores.<br />
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Sarkis, the artist whose <a href="http://r3pose.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/artists-what-artists-art-what-art.html" target="_blank">work</a> I had seen at SALT Beyoğlu in April has a solo exhibition in a very nice artspace in Tophane called Galeri Mana.<br />
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The space is industrial chic and beautifully done - airy, simple, with nice exposed brick and sittable window ledges. Since this exhibition filled both the ground and first floor, the crowd and drinks were out in the street.<br />
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I went back the next day to photograph the space and Sarkis was there giving an interview upstairs, as he was scheduled to give a student talk nearby that afternoon.<br />
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While I am not sure what this work is about (other than it is what it is) I very much like the cymbal on a slowly oscillating chain made of connected short copper springs. The cymbal's excursion is only about 20cm and as it approaches the copper clad puck (same diameter as cymbal) there is the tiniest 'chunk' - not enough vibration to sound the cymbal, but a tiny cupping of air trapped within the void of the cymbal's concavity affecting the sound of gentle impact - a kiss, in fact.<br />
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I'm always a sucker for oil spread. In this case, however, I also very much like the way the work on paper is presented. The backboard is birch ply, encased in a perspex lid. The paper is very simply pinned to the back board. A nice compromise between just pinning a work to a wall and strangling a work behind glass, cutting off all escape with mitred frame corners.<br />
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These look like Muji pins to me.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-90397895581785385172013-05-26T08:29:00.000+00:002013-05-26T18:52:18.048+00:00Shopping in Kadıköy 2.0A return to Kadıköy by myself this time.<br />
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With a birthday party looming today I decide upon those jewel-like preserved vegetables<br />
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for Andrew who is 'too old for presents'. Naturally this means I must return to the shop with the fabulous almond paste sweets, Cafe Erol. Looks a bit like a Konditerai, inside and out.<br />
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Some of the almond paste sweets are rolled in crushed pistachios (rear right), but I am a purist (rear centre).<br />
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These particular jars of boiled sweet historically indicated that the Jannisary, the Sultan's crack troops, were pleased with their paypacks. Still called “akide şekeri” (lit. “good faith/allegiance candy”) the colours are splendid.<br />
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I then pop over to the organic spice shop to get a small bottle of sumac molasses, an extremely tart syrup similar to the more readily available pomegranate molasses, as a thank-you to Korhan. The items dangling from the shop awning are strings of sun-dried red peppers and, on the far right, thumb-sized patlaçan, or baby eggplants, cored and all ready for stuffing at Çiya. <br />
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The shop assistant is particularly nice.<br />
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Jars of various spices<br />
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tempt me to take 100 gr of both powdered sumac and red pepper flakes.<br />
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Returning to the ferry, I pass a stall offering these these prepared (honestly, pre-pared!?) artichoke hearts, as seen on this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG0ZxYsU2do" target="_blank">Yotam Ottolenghi </a>clip from his Channel 4 series on Istanbul and other Mediterranean cuisine. The clip shows how all the outer leaves and inner stickers are removed for you. A bag of 4 cost TL10, or about £3/$5.<br />
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And they are massive! I simply steamed them and ate them cold, sliced with a little lemon and mayo. Yum.<br />
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The return ferry travels past a massive structure, the Army Barracks, seen in the background at the horizon.</div>
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This is where Florence Nightingale came during the Crimean War and started the practice of modern nursing. There is a small museum devoted to her, apparently in one of these towers. <br />
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And it is right at the commercial part of the waterways, with cranes and container ships everywhere. <br />
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And this is one of the smaller vessels!</div>
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Composition in orange and blue.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-44221878729002559922013-05-25T22:30:00.001+00:002013-05-25T22:31:00.839+00:00A Turkish Cemetery and BrancusiAnd again, on the way up to and from the Black Sea Castle, I found this terraced cemetery, a cool green oasis amongst the glare of the bare earth and the paved roads.<br />
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What surprises me is how the grave is still mounded after, in this case, almost 20 years.<br />
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Theses flat cut-out silhouettes<br />
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remind me of simplified versions of the Romanian grave markers I found
in the decorative arts museum in Budapest,<br />
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which strongly suggest the
inspiration for Brancusi's sculptures and bases.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-78033022850865847192013-05-24T21:46:00.000+00:002013-05-25T22:32:08.631+00:00Wild flowers and roses on the way to the castleAscending and descending the hill I find these blooming perennials and shrubs. This creeping ground cover, generously covered with bee-attracting blossoms, looks to be a type of penstemmon, but blue?<br />
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A kind of yellow aster?<br />
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The largest leaved purple contoneaster I've ever seen.<br />
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Dogwood roses.<br />
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Fragrant broom.<br />
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A small euphorbia (lower left), with another yellow daisy-like compositae with the purpley-blue creeper.<br />
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Chamomile and scarlet poppy.<br />
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Another yellow but taller, with Queens Anne's Lace <br />
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Sweetly scented roses.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-70548136344584662462013-05-23T21:16:00.000+00:002013-05-25T22:38:27.793+00:00The Black Seais a curious body of water.<br />
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It holds an allure for Julie as one of her all-time favourite restaurants serves dishes from the Black Sea and she loves the Wednesday market of Black Sea traders in garden produce.<br />
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It also is the end of a line of two distinct water flows: fresh water from rivers in eastern Europe, Central Asia and Turkey; salt water from the Mediterranean via the Turkish Straits, composed of the Dardanelles between the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmara, and the Bosphorus, between the Sea of Marmar and the Black Sea.<br />
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All very complicated, with layering of waters based on temperature, salinity and surface/coastal conditions. But I imagine this complication is what gives this region its richness and diversity of agriculture and fisheries. <br />
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I finally succumbed to the lure of the Bosphorus cruise (a whopping TL25/£9/$12) for a full day out. Departing at 10.30, 90 minutes ping-ponging across the waterway to various ferry docks, arriving at Anadolu Kavaği, the last ferry stop on the Asian side of the Bosphorus. The day starts overcast yet humid, and en route the rain periodically spits down, dimpling the water's surface.<br />
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On board and awaiting departure I spot a continuous stream of small jellyfish: <br />
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The first stop is Barbaros Hayretin Paşa Iskelesi. All of the ferry quays are built or renovated in the Ottoman style.<br />
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The Dolmabahaçe Palace is the first point of interest on the European side.<br />
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Next comes a series of antique-style buildings, both private homes and ancient monuments:<br />
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One of a pair of fortifications at a narrow point where the initial conquest of Constantinople by the attacking Ottomans commenced by controlling trade up and down the Bosphorus (I think).<br />
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An older appearing structure behind a sleekly modern watercraft, and a pair of minarets behind in the trees.<br />
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Note the lack of tidal effect as there is little or no allowance for rising waters along these housefronts.<br />
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Finally, in the distance, my first glimpse of the Black Sea.<br />
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As we approach the final quay, a hill appears with a castle on top. It seems the castle, Yoros Kalesi, was a strategic point originally settled by the Phoenicians, then the Greeks, Byzantines, Genoese and finally the Ottomans, bouncing between the Ottomans and the Genoese for 150 yrs from c 1300-1450.<br />
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This is the point of the trip - to view the Black Sea from this vantage point. <br />
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I heard every language on this height: German, Norwegian, Japanese, Hindi, American, Spanish, Russian.<br />
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And a bit of the ruins:<br />
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Someone kindly took my picture.<br />
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On the way up I'd noted a cafe serving calmari, so I headed there after descending. <br />
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Followed by ice cream! Delicious looking star-shaped waffle galettes <br />
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made in a hot press.<br />
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But I chose two scoops in a cup - one with chunks of chestnut and the with whole almonds, both in vanilla ice cream.<br />
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On the return trip, the sudden appearance of built-up cosmopolitan areas is striking - one spit of land projecting into the Bosphorus is completely wooded and the next is completely paved over, covered with buildings. It is barely discernible in the distance but telephoto shows a different story:<br />
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The ship's spray created this rainbow. A strong wind sprang up and the seagulls flying alongside us just about kept pace.<br />
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The Turkish economy is booming right now due to construction - hence this new build in the old style.<br />
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Yes, all the sunny images are from the return trip in the afternoon, facing Asia. The overcast images are all from the outbound trip facing the European side. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-58015805857005041192013-05-20T16:05:00.000+00:002013-05-20T16:05:26.571+00:00Bling Nişantaşı-styleCouldn't help it - all the window displays have been changed!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-33645279200091843682013-05-19T19:55:00.002+00:002013-05-20T16:05:43.031+00:00Felix catus finisThis is the last cat post I'm planning - they're everywhere!<br />
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Now I've managed to get up here by myself, <br />
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I'll just settle in and be comfortable.<br />
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Beware! Guard Cat!<br />
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Hmmm, is this where I put that tidbit?<br />
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If I can't see you, you can't see me.<br />
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Not all cats are black at night.<br />
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Mesh hammock.<br />
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This guy was patiently waiting at his door.<br />
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The cashpoint cat.<br />
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Felix finished. The last 10 images all from this afternoon.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-88666970611203640942013-05-19T17:27:00.000+00:002013-05-19T17:27:06.804+00:00Sunday afternoon in KadıköyA beautiful sunny day but the Spice Market/Mısır Çarşısı is closed so decide to go over to the Asya/Asia side to the neighbourhood called Kadıköy. This is one ferry stop away from Karaköy, my local stop. My goal is to locate those delicious preserved olives I ate at Çiya so many weeks ago.<br />
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Fortunately, Korhan is here and very kindly agrees to show me the sights of Kadıköy. We arrive on the Asia side, scope out the shop for the preserved olives and continue on to the walking/shopping street in this non-tourist area. <br />
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First off is a cookie break at a family run shop specializing in particular bakery goods. It had been threatened with eviction a few years ago but the local outrage was sufficient to garner it some kind of registered status so the family business will continue. <br />
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The shop window is full of so many varieties of pastries and sweets. <br />
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The treats here are two-fold: Tanhini Pide, a tahini biscuit<br />
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with sesame both inside and out;<br />
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and silver foil-wrapped Leblebi, a chickpea version of halva, best kept chilled.<br />
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All this walking leads Korhan to suggest a nice sit-down under some trees with a cuppa, so we head off to the Communist Party Cultural Centre. To get there we walk down this charming narrow street, lined on one side with tiny stalls of individual craft artists, and on the other with medical devices such as corsets, trusses, crutches, toilet seat extenders, foot and ankle braces - an extremely unpredictable combination. <br />
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On the way we pass a cafe serving only jacket potatoes with a broad range of toppings. Perhaps this is the origin of the dressed jacket potato? A Turkish tradition, this cooker on the pavement looks like it's been there a few decades.<br />
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The Cultural centre also projects films onto the large white wall in the back of this shot. <br />
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So very crowded, the only tables available in the shade are under a glass roof.<br />
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The building itself is an old and well maintained place, with bookshop and very clean loos.<br />
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Heading back to the ferry we stop to select and collect the preserved 'fruits' (technically an olive is a stone fruit, like a plum) but the colourful marzipan catches my eye as well.<br />
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Resplendent faux fruits are wasted on me, so after sampling the purest form I take 250 grams. This marzipan is probably 95% pure almond paste, with only a touch of sugar. The texture is delicate, soft, and not at all like the rock solid balls of chocolate covered hard centred Mozartballs. Reminds me of the first time I'd tasted home-made marzipan in Denmark so long ago.<br />
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Finally I focus on the preserved 'fruits' which are (L to R, top to bottom, skipping the puddings on the top shelf): individually gold foil wrapped whole chestnuts (marrons glaces), tomatoes, whole chestnuts loose, green olives, whole walnuts, peeled baby eggplants, unpeeled baby eggplant. Astonishing and beautiful.<br />
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Fully packed, wrapped and airplane-proofed, I am given the treats in this great little bag. <br />
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It's a good thing they are all so beautifully wrapped as otherwise I'd be sorely tempted!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-77824254114405217432013-05-18T11:11:00.000+00:002013-05-18T11:11:38.686+00:00Ayasofya/Hagia Sofiais massive but no need for me to reiterate that.<br />
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Wandering around the ground floor, most of my images were shaky as the light levels were so low, partially due to the internal scaffolding up for restoration: <br />
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But I was able to see a few things. This square support shows the decorative effects of a Black Sea bas relief of dolphins carved in black stone surmounted by a band of Egyptian porphryr, and supported by a band of Thessalonian green marble.<br />
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The Imperial Gate, so very tall and so very thick;<br />
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the ring handle is wider than my palm.<br />
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Next to the minbar (pulpit) inside the main space is one of a pair of 16th c early Ottoman decorative tiles depicting the Holy Ka'aba and the tomb of the Prophet. The squared-off crenelation theme repeats throughout the building.<br />
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An internal stone ramp of many switch-backs leads to the upper Gallery, where there is much more light.<br />
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From here the domes and column capitals are readily visible.<br />
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For scale, the calligraphic roundel is 7+m diam (23-24') and you can just make out the heads and shoulders of other visitors leaning over the railings on the opposite side. The floating figure in the triangular section beneath the windows ringing the main dome's base is a hexapterygon, <br />
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or six-winged angel. It seems that only two wings are required for flying, the others are for modesty (covering face and body), although the upper pair looks like an elaborate feathery turban to me .<br />
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On the way to the Empress's Gallery the mid-12th c Deësis mosaic,<br />
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faces the Marble Door, a reverse of the norm where wood imitates stone. Note the slope of the floor.<br />
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While the exterior architectural structure is again a composition of massed forms (<a href="http://r3pose.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/and-now-little-sight-seeing.html" target="_blank">Blue Mosque</a>), the interior is a composition of layered arcs, arches with depth of space stretching out beyond.<br />
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And ancient carved graffiti:<br />
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On the way out, a final gallery on the ground floor with simple mosaic crosses.<br />
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Outside, the combined weight of all the domes is supported by these 16th c flying buttresses added by Mimar Sinan<br />
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at the base of which a tiny grassed area blooms with chamomile and potted cardinal flowers, <br />
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overlooking the excavated remnants of Theodosius II's Lamb of God frieze, originally adorning the Second Church of about 415 CE.<br />
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I found the cracked marble paving slabs very moving; so much time, so much wear from so many feet. During its time as a mosque, these slabs were covered with carpet, and only revealed after centuries when the building was converted to a museum in the 1930's.<br />
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This will marry nicely with my video and works on butcher paper for the exhibition.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-33175520580537776992013-05-17T20:59:00.001+00:002013-05-17T20:59:41.874+00:00The ferry, the Bosphorus and an old Istanbul neighbourhood Departing on the ferry to Üsküdar <br />
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just opposite my local fish market<br />
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I find a seat on one of the slatted wooden benches. Stewards offer çai (tea) to this mostly empty boat.<br />
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We trundle across the haliç to Eminönü, <br />
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race off and onto another ferry heading towards the Bosphorus, but first must duck under the famous double decker Galata Bridge.<br />
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It does seem very low!<br />
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En route it's time for some big ships: cruise ships,<br />
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fast transport,<br />
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very distant cargo vessels on the horizon looking towards the Sea of Marmara,<br />
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and a massive cargo vessel in the Bosphorus, whose central deep currents are swift and treacherous.<br />
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Arriving at Üsküdar I catch a dolmaş, a hybrid public/private mini-mass transit vehicle in the form of a mini-bus with seats and standing room for perhaps a total of 20 passengers, only TL 1.50 for this 10 min coastal ride to Kuzguncuk. <br />
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On this leafy tree-lined street multitudinous small cafes full of people casually sitting and drinking tea, talking, playing backgammon, chatting border the pavement. <br />
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<span id="goog_1201840846"></span><span id="goog_1201840847"></span>What may be a synagogue is closely followed by a Greek Orthodox church.<br />
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And then the Ottoman-style wood architecture follows. Gaily painted homes <br />
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sit on steep hills that recall San Francisco to mind. <br />
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These renovated buildings are unusual as I've been told that so much of the derelict property in Istanbul is tied up due to multiple ownership. Not to mention the impediments to modernizing ancient structures. This one looks like it would scrub up very nicely.<br />
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But these Painted Ladies also remind me of Chicago's Bucktown:<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-18276866372276811432013-05-17T19:10:00.000+00:002013-05-18T14:18:27.158+00:00Sound Studio 1.0Met Korhan at <a href="http://www.studiodrumbass.com/" target="_blank">Studio Drum & Bass</a>, located in a building whose name, Çinili Han, translates to Tile Building as its lobby is decorated with beautiful Art Nouveau tiles (will return for images).<br />
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Çinili, it seems, refers to China, the origin of porcelain. Three floors up <br />
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is the studio where we are greeted by Burhan Hasdemir.<br />
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He and Korhan are old friends and they chat about cables and microphones <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span> <br />
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while I, on the balcony, gaze at the view of the Haliç (Golden Horn) and<br />
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Ayasofya in the old city on this hazy hot day.<br />
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My first time in a recording studio so am fascinated by the variety of acoustic control materials: grey fabric-covered panels, triangular profile closed cell foam extrusions packing all four corners, black textured wall covering, <br />
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even textured mesh filtering shades to reduce sound bounce off the glass window dividing the performing space from the engineering space. I sat on a high stool speaking into this mike, the first few trials with a pop filter between me and it. Then we tried it without the filter and that seemed to work. We did about four full run-throughs of the 10 min. text. Happy to say I only stumbled twice, but maintaining consistent volume was a problem for me.<br />
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Korhan, surrounded by all his <a href="https://soundcloud.com/korhanerel" target="_blank">equipment</a>, checking that all is well with the takes.<br />
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The text simply is me speaking what I see watching the video of walking down the street, eyes focused on the pavement surfaces (see this <a href="http://r3pose.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/walk-in-persembe-pazar-beyoglu-istanbul.html" target="_blank">Post</a>). We will try a few versions: layering the text over the recorded street sounds; and/or two different takes layered, since each was an improvisation, not a reading of a script, and therefore different; and/or another layer of sound words not included in the original recording. I found it very difficult <b>not </b>to speak in cadence with the original soundtrack, so watched the video with no sound while speaking. In my original text <br />
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I included sound words, such as 'motor, diesel, cry, clang, echo, laughter' and these may be added in as well, with the tracks fading in and out of each other. <br />
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I have no idea how this will turn out but I trust Korhan as he is more than sensitive to over-working a piece.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-59185047207595443542013-05-15T19:37:00.002+00:002013-05-17T19:14:01.865+00:00The Saatchi art scene of Istanbul?<br />
Julie was very excited to have her work accepted as a non-Turkish artist for the <a href="http://www.mamutartproject.com/index.php" target="_blank">Mamut Art Project </a>exhibition which opened tonight. Over 50 artists showed in this space, Antrepo No. 3, adjacent to Istanbul Modern. I arrived a bit early and the art crowd streamed in, not just promptly at 19.00 but early - Mercedes, BMW's, a Land Rover, Bentley, Jaguar and various Audi's and Peugeuts, many chauffeur-driven. <br />
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Plenty of towering stilettos on patrons and the artists all in black.<br />
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Arriving at Julie's corner space 15 min after the official opening, I found it packed with attendees, just missing the camera crew interviewing one of the show's organizers, and found three works already red-dotted and three others with silver dots. Her labour-intensive three-dimensional <a href="http://www.julieupmeyer.com/installations/layered---karakoy/" target="_blank">photo constructs</a> attracted a lot of attention. <br />
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The silver dots from this couple:<br />
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Julie's currency works are just visible behind this animated group:<br />
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Antrepo No 3 is a large space, well suited for this kind of exhibition, with hip internally LED-lit seating scattered throughout and most welcome situated near the numerous video pieces, say, between 25-30%, of the works on show.<br />
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Some pieces that caught my eye included this three-part work by <a href="http://www.cda-projects.com/sabri-atalay-yavuz-a172.html" target="_blank">Sabri Atalay Yavruz</a><br />
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and this book work by <a href="http://didemerk.com/works/anomalistic.html" target="_blank">Didem Erk</a>,</div>
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beautifully stitched leaves from 'from ten books that are chosen according their languages, namely Ottoman Turkish, Syriac, Hebrew, Kurdish, Bulgarian, Greek, Georgian, Lazuri, Armenian, and Circassian.' A bit Christian Boltanski with its bare filament bulb, a bit Ann Hamilton, but I like it.<br />
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Another red-dotted work by the painter <a href="http://canincekara.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Can Incekara</a>, quiet, silent architectural spaces in cool tonalities (apologies for poor image but camera was totally confused by spotlight):<br />
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The smokers and drinkers, escaping the heat in the dark exhibition space, lined the stairs on the way out.<br />
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Congratulations, Julie!<br />
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UPDATE: Julie sold 10 of the 11 photo works in her exhibition, more than any of the other artists! Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-17023747150461311462013-05-13T14:29:00.000+00:002013-06-26T10:28:35.833+00:00Demented Drum 3.0<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
While my aesthetic sensibilities are slightly offended by the kinks and bends in some of the woven stainless cables sections to which the connectors and fishing lead weights are fixed, it seems obvious to me that this is the major reason the work is beginning to approach Max Eastley's concept of instability.</div>
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I love the way one of the longer sections swings wildly about though I'm only turning the crank arm back and forth, through about 70 deg of arc, from 10 deg to 80 deg. The sharp clicking sounds are when one of the lead weights strikes the very edge of the drum.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-40406158981722559542013-05-12T20:27:00.000+00:002013-05-17T05:48:38.499+00:00Art Spaces IstanbulA week or so ago we attended some exhibition openings, including one at Mixer, an art space in the Tophane neighbourhood of Istanbul.<br />
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With Sibel and Mehmet at the PV:<br />
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Something about these charcoal drawings caught my eye. They are by Güneş Bulut, 2012.<style>
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Then there was the opening on 30 April at Arter,<br />
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a very posh art space, according to Julie. It's located on Istiklal, one of the main walking and shopping streets in Istanbul. <a href="http://www.arter.org.tr/W3/?sAction=CurrentExhibitions&iExhibitionId=48" target="_blank">Matt Collishaw</a>, of Blaine|Southern, opened here with his particularly dark visions of leprotic and syphilitic flowers, tri-dimensional imagery of staged bedroom scenes, Death Row last meal photographs in suitably dour Dutch frames on charcoal painted walls, projected images of death in Sudan and Viet Nam - all of a piece, this very extensive showing. On the fourth floor, however, a much lighter show of works by <a href="http://www.arter.org.tr/W3/?sAction=CurrentExhibitions&iExhibitionId=49" target="_blank">Volkan Aslan:</a><br />
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Today I finally went to Istanbul Modern,<br />
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a ground and lower ground floor structure with a cafe on the Bosphorus, <br />
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facing Asia and the Old City. <br />
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In a curious parallel to Tate Modern and St. Paul's Cathedral, one can see another ancient holy site, the Hagia Sofia (Ayasofya) just across the shining waters.<br />
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No photos allowed inside. But I did very much enjoy a short video work by Hale Tengar, <a href="http://www.archileb.com/article.php?id=446" target="_blank">Beirut 2005-2007</a> and an animated modern folktale, <a href="http://www.istanbulmodern.org/en/collection/photography-collection/5?t=3&id=1197" target="_blank">Examplary</a> by Canan, using imagery of traditional Turkish puppets, collage, and drawing.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-33727898111057080472013-05-08T19:37:00.000+00:002013-05-08T19:37:32.179+00:00Felis catus 2.0They are everywhere in this city.<br />
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The underground pedestrian walkway to access the tram is lined with a huge variety of shops, including electrical goods, mobile phones and accessories, gardening bits and bobs, and this pet supply shop with huge bags of cat food - three varieties to one of dog food.<br />
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Walking to the Blue Mosque, the clever ones are in the shade of a park bench.<br />
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Or leaping for tidbits, attracting competition.<br />
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No, I'm quite comfy here, thanks.<br />
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Aw, c'mon!<br />
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Donkey between two bundles?<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-27028972971930947292013-05-08T19:22:00.000+00:002013-05-08T19:31:33.448+00:00Finally it's cherry seasonFrom bashing Turkish strawberries, perhaps a bit to early in the season as subsequent ones were tastier, I'm now worshipping at the alter of my favourite, just arrived in the market - cherries!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ5ACcpk0FjxFiOo5bqnk8qH1jo54HKn5C8lkX0Bhi_d8_Ejs8_0ecgNYgvzGoyi6_bJbZzUddRZdM4BUSdis6bi9-YIriUeSPYvpkl-N4XLYsnSZLuLwBYaAznatQuuTj8ciVujCeVw/s1600/IMG_8218.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ5ACcpk0FjxFiOo5bqnk8qH1jo54HKn5C8lkX0Bhi_d8_Ejs8_0ecgNYgvzGoyi6_bJbZzUddRZdM4BUSdis6bi9-YIriUeSPYvpkl-N4XLYsnSZLuLwBYaAznatQuuTj8ciVujCeVw/s400/IMG_8218.JPG" width="400" /></a><br />
Interestingly, most of them are twins, with double stones on a single stalk. So delicious. In the market they are 5TL a half kilo (£1.80/half kilo or $2.80/lb) but in the shops I've seen them for up to 29TL/kilo, or three times the price. I've been indulging anywhere from a 350 gr box to half kilo bag every other day now. So delicious.<br />
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Another market realization is the difference between the pre-packaged greens from the shops in London compared to the hearty mature leafed greens here. For example, this is rocket, a bunch with the roots still attached (shot on the same stair tread as the cherries above for scale):<br />
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and spinach, here just two whole plants pulled out of the ground, again roots attached. Same stair tread. These leaves have substance, flavour and longevity, unlike the baby leaves preserved in nitrous gassed plastic bags.<br />
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Combined with onions, garlic, leeks, and courgettes (the light green-skinned variety are what is available here) I made this delicious vegetarian (almost) soup which can be eaten hot or cold.<br />
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The original recipe is below, but the one pictured above was made with 1/2kg each of leeks (white only) and spinach, big bunch rocket, 4 med onions, 5-6 med cloves garlic, 1 kg courgettes and 1 l water. This is a flexible dish and most adaptable for whatever looks best at the market.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Summer Soup</span><br />
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4 tbs (60 gr) sweet butter<br />
2 c. (500 ml) finely chopped yellow onions<br />
1 leek or some shallots or extra onions as wanted<br />
3 c. (750 ml) chicken stock<br />
2 lbs (1 kg) courgettes (about 4 -5 med) coarsely chopped. Reserve some whole for garnish<br />
½ lb (250 gr) rocket/watercress/spinach or any combination<br />
salt/black pepper/cayenne pepper<br />
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Soften onions in butter in largish pot. Add stock and bring to boil. Add courgettes and return to boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer until tender, about 20 min. Remove pot from heat, add cleaned and torn greens. Let stand 5 min. Use soup wand to blend to smooth puree. Season with salt, pepper/cayenne to taste. Serve with dollop of yog<span font-size:="" small="" style="font-size: If desired serve with dollop of sour cream/yog<span style=;">h</span>urt or crème fraiche and reserved greens as garnish.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-77502720020528563412013-05-07T21:18:00.002+00:002013-05-07T21:29:59.322+00:00And now a little sight-seeing....Took the tram to Sultanahmet today, along with thousands of others on this beautiful day, to the Blue Mosque. From the outside all the volumetric architectural masses stacked up one against each other.<br />
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The inner courtyard<br />
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in which is found this kiosk<br />
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with exquisitely delicate bas relief flower and foliate carving <br />
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enhanced by the sharply raking sunlight<br />
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and capitals with carved planar lozenges.<br />
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The directed exit led one to face Hagia Sophia/Ayasofya, closed today,<br />
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so I decided to have a wander in the Grand Bazaar. On the way I noticed a street person crossing the Hippodrome with his highly unusual and compact cart of belongings.<br />
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In the Grand Bazaar the multitude of shops selling the same items was overwhelming. My main sense was that within this place exists a vast repository of other people's labour. And also that trade and goods and selling has been going on here in Istanbul for over 1500 years.<br />
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A very smiley slipper seller<br />
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and his happy purple and silver polyurethane-sole'd slippers!<br />
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I also discovered the bookseller's part of the <span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="tr"><span class="hps">çarşı, in a rather European-scaled tree </span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="tr"><span class="hps">shaded courtyard.</span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="tr"><span class="hps"></span></span><br />
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Who do I find?<br />
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and<br />
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opposite ends of the British publishing world. And some remarkable lithography stones<br />
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of the Ottoman period (in Arabic script).<br />
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As opposed to Modern Turkish, brought in by Ataturk in the 1920's, when the Latin alphabet was imposed upon the Turkish language, except for those words borrowed from other European languages, such as duş (Fr. douche), kuaför (Fr. coiffeur), büfe (Fr. buffet) and finally kestane,<br />
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which I just realized is based on the French for chestnut (<span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span class="hps">châtaigne). Finally, one of those undercover police at work!</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-57593080488026722522013-05-06T14:52:00.000+00:002013-05-07T21:19:16.377+00:00More Istanbul idiosyncrasies...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It seems that floral tributes are the norm for anniversaries, even of chemists and lighting supply shops. I can only surmise these have been offered by customers or suppliers to the establishment to celebrate. Eczane is Turkish for chemist: <br />
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As they lean up against the shop front, I wonder if the form is derived from processionals? The handy long supporting pole would be useful for that.<br />
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Elaborate and festive, they are so colourful and gorgeous! People spill out onto the street when the celebration takes place.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-36023035068268148062013-05-05T14:40:00.000+00:002013-05-06T14:40:32.590+00:00The artist at work...Rubs and wrinkles, the butcher paper is a joy to work with.<br />
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Lovely when held up to the late afternoon slanting sunlight.<br />
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Thanks to Laleh for taking these images for me.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6771261735649838300.post-6758561924869373842013-05-04T13:31:00.000+00:002013-05-13T14:36:41.872+00:00Topological complexity: Membranes, skin, tactility and sound...now make a full circle. From the walking video (April 9 post) to the goatskin (now confirmed it really is goatskin) sounding device to the surface of the street here in Istanbul,<br />
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I discovered that some works I did several weeks ago complete this connection. The very heavy double-sided waxed butcher bears the wrinkles and folds of the mince beef it contained. Skin as a boundary or container, the haptic and tactile quality of this paper (25x34 cm, 9' x 14') generates irregular yet traceable marks of usage:<br />
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Front and back are different.<br />
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The heavy wax coating, now cracked through the action of rolling and folding, loses its integrity and wholeness, becoming susceptible to penetration by the liquid watercolour seeping beneath the protective waxy surface, soaking into the paper substrate.<br />
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And as watercolour, it comes in a variety of shades:<br />
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and with red pigment rubbed in as well, softening the surface with a powdery texture;<br />
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vivid yellow, almost electric:<br />
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Again, front and back.<br />
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The marks of colour reveal the newly made history of each sheet.<br />
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