Ece Clarke is an artist who was born in İstanbul and educated in Turkey and Germany. She later lived in the Far East and the Middle East and is now a resident of London. Being involved in and affected by different cultures at each stage, her work concerns itself with the reality of existence and is connected to Ece’s other interests in science and the universe, the elements of nature and other naturally occurring forms.
Her “Three-Dimensional Painting Exhibition” is hosted at Suna Çokgür Ilıcak Art Gallery at the Foreign Ministry. The venue of the exhibition is sort of quirk of fate as Clarke says the triangle of politics, culture and religion are central to her development as an artist.

There are many descriptions made by prominent critics for what she has been doing. One of her colleagues explains her work as “matchmaking between the aesthetic and the knowledge of things.

ZAMAN

Quite an inviting image:
http://www.medisun.nl/Content/Sites/Medisun/images/Turkije/Fethiye/Fethiye/fet2.jpg

Art and Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Turkey
Turgut Zaim

http://www.atamanhotel.com/museums/ankara-resim2.html
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/anrt/anrt_1.htm

http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resim:Turgut_Zaim_yorukler_koyu.jpg#file






Gizem Saka


http://www.istanbulgallery.com/news.asp

wall painting from Çatal Hüyük
http://www.rugreview.com/orr/132marl.htm

Cuando Calienta el Sol for my special friends

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLNSf_3et3A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_elgbArPwi4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhSN8uYfiww&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Srk5SpVTsE

and Kataifi
In old times, altough boza was prepared at homes as well, it is traditionally sold by the street traders, so called "bozaci", in Turkey. On cold winter nights, the bozaci wanders in the streets of cities and sells boza. Hearing the voice of a bozaci from the street is another sign for everyone that it is winter time. It is a treat for all to buy some chilled boza from a street trader at night after dinner and enjoy this sour and sweet, highly nutritious yet delicious drink in the comfort of a warm house.
Kataifi (kadayıf in Turkish) is a very common dessert in the Middle East. Here I am using the word for the kataifi dough, which is also known as shredded dough. Long, very thin strands of dough, that is.

And this is new to me:
http://www.yogurtland.com/2006/06/21/purslane-salad/#comment-18747

http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/Market/8395/akman.htm

Helmut Lotti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9rfr0SoGK0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfUVWGTpe7o&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFljx_I7toQ

Another man done gone, see youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RwywI6LJA4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7WFUav0ig8&feature=related

pls. quote what he said to Daydreamer...