Büyüye ve rüyaya yakın bir kıyaslar alemi*
Over a lifetime, we can come face to face with ourselves many times: ugly or beautiful, good or bad, unexpected or full of surprises.
I had one of those encounters about a year and a half ago. I can't say I wasn't surprised.
The digital drawings gathered under the name Velvet Spectacle (VS) came out of meeting myself in a different way.
VS started as a Substack account. Not long after, it became the Instagram account where I share my drawings.
I've been drawn to painting for a long time, but I can't say I've been drawing for long. I've been drawing more often since 2019, and the digital phase is much more recent.
The real turning point was a David Hockney exhibition I visited with Selin in Paris. I was spellbound by Hockney's boundless creativity. My eyes filled with tears, and it almost took my breath away.
But there is more to it. There are books that seeped into my bones, films, and songs I got hooked on and listened to hundreds of times. Then there are dreams, therapy, and readings in psychoanalysis. And, truth be told, in the background of it all, there is an excavation that reaches deep inside me through what I have lived. So it seems that somewhere, when you touch these things, a kind of magic happens.
The drawings here were born from those points of contact with life.
Özge
"Gündüzleri o kadar vazıh, her kenarı, her kıvrımı ayrı ayrı işlenmiş gibi meydanda ve berrak güneş altında yalnız kendisi olan koyların, tepelerin, koruların birdenbire kendilerinin de içinde bir vehim, bir hayal oldukları bu rüya hali Mümtaz için sade o ana ait bir lezzet değildi; belki o anda sanatın büyüye yakın sırrını bulurdu. Nuran'a sık sık:
— Bu senin ruhunun içinden geçmeğe benziyor, dediği zaman, ayrı ayrı nizamlarda üç güzelliğin, sanatın, sevilen tabiatın ve hiç bir cazibesi kaybedilmeyen kadının birbiriyle kendi ruhunda nasıl karıştığını, ne acayip. büyüye ve rüyaya yakın bir kıyaslar alemini bir tek realite gibi yaşadığını kendi de farkederdi."* "A peculiar dimension of sorcery and dreamwork" — Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Huzur (A Mind at Peace, translated by Erdağ M. Göknar)