to show me something she sjust finished. 0k! it s beautiful! i m really intrigued by how this is created. are these post it notes that you ve, almost like a mosaic, you sort of tessellated them together to create the image? exactly, yes. and you can see the whole image also fragmented as well. as we talked in the museum, i can imagine the whole from one. it s very tactile, partly because you ve folded some of them over. yeah. each one is what, individually printed? i use them as a canvas, you know. yes. and then, i print one time on the top of it. for each colour. yes. clearly, it has a really pop sensibility, responding to historical art. who is this woman? let me show you the original. it is known that the woman is the wife of osman hamdi.
for each colour. yes. clearly, it has a really pop sensibility, responding to historical art. who is this woman? let me show you the original. it is known that the woman is the wife of osman hamdi. 0k! yes! we were looking at the two musician girls and it s very respectful of those two women. this is a really powerful image of a powerful woman, right? he always draws women strong, powerfuland, of course, romantic, too. it s interesting because that s your interpretation of the painting. and this is also an interpretation of that painting, to make it live and breathe in a contemporary idiom. i haven t really come across many images which are made out of composite post it notes. it s a great idea. it s very ephemeral. post it notes are things that we just make jottings on and then perhaps discard,
traditional islamic art, as well as that orientalist world view we encountered earlier. luckily, she s invited me to her istanbul studio to show me something she sjust finished. 0k! it s beautiful! i m really intrigued by how this is created. are these post it notes that you ve, almost like a mosaic, you sort of tessellated them together to create the image? exactly, yes. and you can see the whole image also fragmented as well. as we talked in the museum, i can imagine the whole from one. it s very tactile, partly because you ve folded some of them over. yeah. each one is what, individually printed? i use them as a canvas, you know. yes. and then, i print one time on the top of it. for each colour. yes. clearly, it has a really pop sensibility, responding to historical art. who is this woman?
In the interest of full disclosure, I'm predisposed to like films shot in West Germany during the early '70s because that's where I grew up. My father at the ti