GULHANE WALL
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Rain falling soft & steady on my third sitting drawing the Topkapi [Palace Complex] Wall. From Amiso Hotel’s dining room – How much weather & pollution have painted this black streaky masterpiece?——It’s Restoration Pink again and most of the trees are topped. It was cleaned before, blackened again, and the trees grew again… As I drew this I longed to stay in the neighborhood, but I was being talked out of it. Nobody will take you seriously if you live in Sultahmet, they said. Mistake!
POSH TRIBAL STORE
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Can Antik – Ibrahim – Halil—– in the Grand Bazaar. Father and son, with gorgeous tribal accoutrements and jewelry. Naively I was hoping for an art trade, jewelry for portrait. Mike laughed. “All they want is money, “ he said. True!
AN ACCOUNTANT FROM KYRGYSTAN
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…wearing a rose-patterned velvet dress, which I blended with a close-up of one of my embroidered Koran covers. This lady looks Native American to me; she could be Lakota Sioux.
DERVISH EMBRACE
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This looks like it was drawn at the Dervish Monastery in Tunel.
YEDITEPE STAIRCASE
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Bedrittan Dalan’s mighty spiral in glass, throne & dignitas——by special request, just before he fired me. He was very proud of this staircase, meant to echo the crystal and marble masterpiece at Dolmabahçe Palace.
RUBY LIPS STUDENT
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Another kid in college, God love ‘em all.
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-Lots of Arabic writing——a small take on Ataturk as a young decorated soldier, which a friend wrote on in Arabic. I have no idea what this says –
ART STUDENT
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These kids are all the same age as the waiters at Kybele, but they get to go to school. This one was very pleasant.
UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT HEAD
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My new boss. I thought I’d start a computer lab, but ran into university politics. So this jocular department head hired me as an art teacher to start in the fall.
MY ASSISTANT
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My assistant for my 15 minutes at the university——A very nice fellow, working on a degree in music. I wonder what became of him.