HUFF & PUFF
Nizam starting a fire to cook meat on a picnic —17 June ’00——
DISCO SALLY
Nice family ladies gave us bread. We gave them meat. Bread = Ekmek — Lighthouse Disco the night I met Sally — “Hello, I’m Sally.” — Sally & me—— On entering the fabulous Lighthouse Disco, a little man rushed up, kissed Nizam’s hand and touched it to his forehead, and said to me, “Every night you should get on your knees and thank God this man loves you.” Nizam had a hotel and restaurant empire in Side, he gambled it all and lost it all and that was a few years before. He carried his glorious past around him like a credit card.
NIZAM SUNBATHING
Thousand-year-old wall & Nizam at the beach in Side June 2000—— Side is spectacular for ruins. The ancient world is everywhere you look, overlaid with modern glitter- chrome over gold.
WINDY NIGHT
Mustafa — A windy night in Paradise — Christmas Bush in June — At any given moment it all turns to shit, and the back into ice cream again—— I was discovering that Nizam’s agenda had nothing to do with mine. But I was nuts about him and couldn’t let go of my romantic fantasy.
BEACH BEAUTIES
Oh la la!! Four beauties on the beach — Golumse =Smile —Fatos – Derya, Only 16! – Elçin – Özlem — Sisters! — Impossible to convey how lovely they are. But we had fun trying— Özlem is 22 and an environmental engineer——
MUSTAFA & LINDA
…On what started out as a great night — Her full face & profile are the same- I have never seen this——
KISS
Drawn from a photo 4/2001—- This very book.—- Side, June 2000
GABRIELA & CEM
…Man, that is gonna be one beautiful child—— They named him Timur.
KING KONG CARPET
The end and aim of every action is to sell a carpet—— Salesman in full regalia.
ANGRY WOMAN
Germans, Germans everywhere — How Carola looked after Nizam said she was arrogant for not speaking to a rug flogger.
GONIFFS
Gloria said as the car inched through the crowded street: “Wow, you got more trade here than alla New York City!” — These clowns at this place later tried to fix my Russian amber earrings… for $500. I just laughed at them. — GOKÇE Jewellery—— They didn’t even know how to spell it.
TEMPLE OF APOLLO
…Side, Antalya, Turkiye — Ismet — Gloria Gaynor rocking “I Will Survive” is pounding across the water as the lady herself holds a press conference right down in front of the columns—— Ismet showed up next day with his girlfriend to see his finished portrait.
DIVAS
Gloria looking like a Sultana——- Drawn at the time and augmented from photos later. She was electrifying.
AFTER THE CONCERT
Gloria Gaynor playing at the Lighthouse Disco in Side… we all had a wild time — Linwood Maxwell Simon “S-I-M-O-N” Gloria and her husband Linwood w/Nizam—
MEN WITH CIGARS
Sur Restaurant—— Linwood and Nizam become bosom friends after many rakis and cigars. It was about 3AM when I drew this, in the dark.