WATCHING FUTBOL
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A couple of Sultanahmet guys enraptured with the game. It made them hold still.
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ACROSS FROM GULHANE PARK
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Looking up the street that runs next to the wall all the way up to Ayasofya. It still looks pretty much like this.
OUTSIDE THE JUVENILE COURT
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I thought these women were waiting for the bus. But I was sitting on the porch of the Juvenile Court Building. The woman on the left end was very angry when the others, all delighted, showed her this drawing. [She angrily scrubbed her hand across the paper.] Then I realized all these women were waiting for their children to be tried, and the woman’s anger was [perhaps] about a stranger witnessing that. When the soldiers came out with her son between them like a criminal, she fainted in the street, and the others revived her, henna-stained hands patting hers——The Juvenile Courts Building has moved & the structure closed but it is still there.
BYZANTINE CAR PARK
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Oto park with Byzantine arches – Sultanahmet – Arsenal – Youth Hostel – Active Laundry——I am SO GLAD I drew this. About a year later it was gone. The wall and arches may still be there, but the entire lot is covered by a hotel.
ALL IN THE FAMILY
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Easter Sunday 2004 – In my nice clothes I set out on foot for the big Catholic Church in Taksim but was waylaid by this family of headstones, seen through a grille on the trolley line along Topkapi Wall. I see Father, Mother , Children, and Uncles in fezzes, and to the left, someone in a Chinese coolie hat. All in the family – A crowded street. Any people stopped to ooh & Ahh & one guy aught me the Arabic for Allah [Arabic writing]——-Men are turbans, women are flowers, and sometimes, each flower represents one of her children. This cemetery is next to Zeynep Sultan Camii.
THE LAMBFISH
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Şahin Paksoy – I am eating part of this big lamb fish as I draw it intermittently while hordes of people amble along between me and the best fish display I ever saw. EASTER BRUNCH! – Fishers of men – A big brown flat monster fish, a brown small version of the one in the final scene of La Dolce Vita—– Şahin Paksoy is an artist I met while staying with a friend in Teşvikiye. Fellini’s 1960 masterpiece La Dolce Vita is an artist’s struggle between necessity and integrity.
GALATA TOWER RIGHT THERE
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Galata Tower April 2004——Climbing up the steep street I turned a corner and WHAM, there it was. And is. I learned, drawing this. The windows on the buildings at the sides are not square from this vantage point, they are narrow diamonds. I learned to draw what I see, not what I think I see. Worth the stiff neck. This was done in one sitting on Easter Sunday, 2004. I never did make it to church.