and that's what i want to explore. this is amazing. so this is his studio. i can walk around, can i? he was painting the orient within the orient. when you see my work, you can easily link the concepts, let's say, or the technique, anything from them, as inspiring. i think that's rather wonderful. i'm in istanbul, that great, entrancing, ancient megalopolis, once the capital of the byzantine and ottoman empires. lying on either side of the bosporus strait, it's a city that straddles two continents, europe and asia, so it feels like the perfect place to discover for myself the long, still—evolving story of cultural exchange between east and west. i'm starting at the pera museum, once an exclusive hotel in the heart