(This painting and the accompanying piece of writing, written by Sezgi Tamer in 2016, was submitted by Ayşe Acar from İstanbul). “Every idea that is born is the antecedent of another idea. One finds […]
Jardin de Sol
This is a print by Fernando Llort. I bought this print (or serigraph?) in San Salvador, in 2005, from an art shop in the entrance of a restaurant together with another print, a mug and two more […]
Oracle at Delphi
This painting is named The Oracle at Delphi. You can only assume that it is an interpretation of Pythia, The High Priestess of Delphi. However, it is quite different from how she had been traditionally painted. […]
Lake and Trees
We have found this painting in the local hospice. There is a slight discoloration but apart from that it is in a pretty good shape. There was (an still there is) a photocopy of a […]
On “Balance”
Reflections on “Balance” by Ece Serpil Eraslan Throughout literary and mythologic history, the sun and the moon have been respectively situated as different polarities of male and female energy. The symbol most prominently used in […]
Tree
This is a painting by my father. I am not sure if he did this from memory or by looking at a photograph or another painting. It looks like early autumn. The colours […]
Half Way
Based on a short poem by Ahmet Haşim, this painting shows an astronaut sitting on the branches of a tree growing out of his spaceship. We can see the earth below and the moon in […]
Ivy
This is a painting inspired by the last stanza of a poem by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar. It is one of the three paintings done between 2001 and 2003 that are based on fragments of poems […]
Balance (Denge)
This was a wedding present by my beloved friend Nur and since then it has become of the most important pieces of our collection in Istanbul. The photograph here does little justice for its beauty. […]
Sleeping Woman (after Max Liebermann)
This is a reproduction of Max Liebermann‘s Sleeping Woman. I painted it using pastels. The original is an oil painting on board. This painting was lost during the World War II. It was last seen […]
The Living Frames 