MORNING GLORY
— Drawing for 2 hours with the sun full in my face. These caves are still lived-in by local people in ÜRGÜP — Günik—> She stumbled out sleepy in to the brilliant morning & found me drawing her house & her mother —— Truly, a memory made of light.
THE BRAVE HAIRCUT
— All these big-hair ’50’s do’s walking around Ürgüp- All by one hand – and then I FOUND him / MUSTAFA — Oh I am being so brave- At home nobody touches my hair but Kevin… but it turned out well and made everybody happy!* *For about an hour. Then I discovered how bad bad hair can be.——
ATATURK’S DREAM
— This tall woman is so beautiful that Andreas dropped his fork when she walked into the restaurant. Ai Yi Yi! FÜSUN – Adana Turkey / She is about 6’2” & Turkish, from near Russia. / HAKAN UYSAL / This family is so stunning that I asked them to pose… found out they are doctors! She is a doctor, he is a dentist.
KISMET CARPETS
— Mr Memet & Kismet Carpet Shop in Göreme—— Always in Turkey, comes a carpet salesman. This was a nice shop.
LAURA THIS & THAT
— Be how you are shining, and shine how you are—Mevlana- Sufi mystic of Konya, Turkey – c800 years ago he created a Dervish monastery —Hilarian / The heart of all religion is the religion of heart — Laura… She also knows Mike in Istanbul. I’ve known this woman several thousand years. — Cradle — Roman arch — Byzantine arch — Turkey. Even the weeds are beautiful.
ORTAHISAR FROM AFAR
— The Castle at Ortahisar — I must be psychotic to even ATTEMPT to draw this.
LAURA & HER VIEW
— Laura Prusoff and the Palace at ORTAHISAR — The view from Laura’s terrace — “The Koran was channeled by Mohammed. Mohammed was illiterate. ‘There is only one God but God, (La Iliha Ilallah) and Mohammed is his messenger.’”—— I was learning a lot.