SWEET SUMMER TWILIGHT
-Piano music from somewhere -The rush of the highway – Shriek of birds – O sweet long summer twilight – Out on the balcony with Ygor – 4 years my cat – & now in this happiest of homes – Over the ruined Boukoleon arches – The train and the sea. – Never forget 8:32 PM Sunday July 13 2008–—
Remembering joy like a pain. It’s 13 years later. Ygor left us in 2019.
<April 22 2008 – 34 years sober today – TriciVenola 2008—– 34 years before this drawing, I cleaned up my act in order to do right by my talent and create art worth looking at. Drawing this fabulous Byzantine window was the best way to celebrate. It’s part of the Corridor of Lord, which connected the Magnaura Palace to the Church of Lord down the hill.
SADI
My old friend from Asia Minor Carpets in Sultanahmet: turned me onto the now- famous “Mambury A” section of the Magnaura Complex ruin. In my story Just Under Your Feet,* Sadi is “the Nephew.“
*Encounters with the Middle East, Solas House, 2007
THE GIRLS
-Liz – Leyla – Beyza – Leyla NW Dogumgünü – A night out with these babes put me back on the map emotionally – Like fresh wind blowing through my old attic.
MOON OVER SULEYMANIYE
-Drawn to the beat of the tribal music wailing wilder and faster – Antik Restaurant with Zaza -A balmy Friday night on the bridge -11 July 2008- Galata Bridge—– Walking home alone in the summer night, I stopped on the bridge in a restaurant I’d never noticed and found it belonged to an old acquaintance, Zaza. I’d been hiding out at home a lot that year, but the night was so beautiful I got out the book and started drawing. Am I glad I did!! Later, the moon dropped between the minarets like a horse into a corral.
STREET SCENE WITH MINARETS
Wild tribal music – A hot July night – The moon caught in the minarets of the Suleymaniye Mosque—–Next day I told an old man and he said, “Oh, I’ve seen it like that!!” Suleymaniye was built by premier Renaissance architect Mimar Sinan. He probably did it on purpose.