STYLIN’ BAYRAM
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Bayram was having a very good year in the carpet business.
DREAMS IN LACE
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Elizabeth & Amy – Dreams in lace – Kybele Museum – Dantelli Ruyalar——-When Elizabeth saw this she said, “Lips! You gave me lips!”
PROFESSOR ACUN & THE VIEW
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[Professor] Şeniz Acun & the view from Marmara Hotel – a happy night in March 2004——She taught at the University where I was to start teaching in the fall, and was very nice to me, took me to dinner and made me welcome when I was hired there. Her students adored her.
HANDSOME VOLKAN
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I have zero recollection of this drawing, but it looks like it was started in the restaurant up top of the Marmara Hotel.
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YEDITEPE KITSCH GATE
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Yeditepe Univerisity is five years old and already cracking at the seams. (Written in 2020.)——
AT UNIVERSITY
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“It’s a man’s world” – “There is no such thing as a Kurd” – At the university where once there was a forest——My new department head. He really said that. A lot.
HAPPY WITH HIMSELF
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Two lovely students at the university. The students there were wonderful.
OSMAN’S ROOFTOP TEXTILES
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The source of my Koran covers for these sketchbooks…and most of the patterns in Mike’s Museum – Grand Bazaar – Ulaş – Osman——Mike said in high glee that I made Osman look like a caveman, but Osman liked it fine. Each sketchbook had its own Koran cover for years and years, it was how I told them apart, but then I needed to see their titles in the bookcase.
THE RINGMAKER
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Etem Acar fixing my treasured 1700-year-old ring. He gave me the antique Roman items here – and I gave him a print of this portrait – Grand Bazaar – One of Etem’s rings – tiny glass ring – glass bracelet – bronze shroud pins – bronze thimble – bronze bracelet – another of Eytem’s rings – new silver around an antique Byzantine coin. I don’t think I will take it off for awhile – 9 April 2004——Whoo! They saw me coming. My “treasured” antique ring is fake. The bronze shroud pins may be antique. Bayram took a look at the Byzantine coin and told me it was a copy, but real gold and silver. A friend, stoned, had watched this guy work and thought he was Cellini. He’s not, but he is a ringmaker and he made a hell of a drawing. I kept all this stuff anyway.