Boats on the Sea of Marmara

by rosedeniz October 8, 2010 drawing

Tweet Boats, 2004 Seeing Izmit through new eyes, how the landscape changes at the onset of winter, the last few days of rain hinting at November. Boats on the water. Smoke rising from factories. Mountains foggy in the distance. Drawings that chronicle daily life, where cold laundry whips in the rainy wind. Where that bright […]

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Cultural style memo

by rosedeniz September 29, 2010 global niche

Tweet Last weekend I went to a wedding. Evening at poolside, giant sparklers shooting into the air while the happy couple walked the aisle. Husband in cotton jacket with red polo, me in fancied up jersey dress with pleats and sparkles and flats. Every. Single. Woman. was wearing heels. And some version of black with […]

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Shaped by what we don’t remember

by rosedeniz September 22, 2010 reading

Tweet It’s that time of year again, for longing for distant things, the crunch of leaves under my feet, for waking up a little chilly in the morning and hoping for rain. Torino, Italy It’s that time of year to be quiet and studious and read good books. In the last two weeks I’ve read The […]

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Show, don’t tell

by rosedeniz September 15, 2010 art

Tweet Illustration for PAWI writing club Artists tend to know this concept intimately: show, don’t tell. Writers are beseeched to embrace it, but art is all about showing, even when work like Nancy Spero’s The Torture of Women from 1976 includes jarring, typewritten layers of text.  In conversation yesterday with Julie Tallard Johnson, we talked about her book The […]

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Pop culture vs. high art?

by rosedeniz September 2, 2010 art

Tweet I’m a latecomer to the Glee obsession. My August NaNoWriMo writing binge was followed by three days of the first season of Glee with breaks to sleep, eat, shower, and feed my kids. It has become a post-project ritual to dive into entire seasons of shows and catch up on movies I’ve missed. Glee is research, […]

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What’s your {life} color palette?

by rosedeniz August 25, 2010 creativity

Tweet Hair dye packaging. Quilting fabric. Cosmetic color forecasts. Paint store swatches. Just a few of my favorite things. I like how a few smart words dressed up in the right clothes can make or break a deal. I love how word and image combined bring out delicious, unexpected combinations. I love embellished details and […]

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Monsters, irascible inner critics, and Merilee

by rosedeniz August 19, 2010 creativity

Tweet “Hybrids are used to strengthen the homogeneous. Grafting different orchids together makes flowers nobody has ever seen before. Cross-pollinating makes hardier fruits and vegetables. Hybrid cars are more energy efficient. Not one, or the other. Both. Conjoined. The hybrid/monster can be sensed even from the shadows. Poison Ivy left behind her traces of vanilla scent. The snakes […]

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Voice lessons from a hybrid ambassador

by rosedeniz August 11, 2010 writing

Tweet HYBRID AMBASSADORS: a blog-ring project of Dialogue2010You met our multinational cultural innovators this spring in a roundtable discussion of hybrid life at expat+HAREM. Now in these interconnected blog posts they share reactions to a recent polarizing book promotion at SheWrites. Join the discussion on Twitter using #HybridAmbassadors or #Dialogue2010 Every day, from my Twitter stream to my blog […]

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Eat, Pray, Love – and Leave

by rosedeniz August 3, 2010 books

Tweet What does leaving home to ‘find oneself’ mean if you don’t go back home? I was captivated reading Eat, Pray, Love. I’m eager to see the movie starring Julia Roberts if and when it comes to Turkey because I love a good story of transformation. It’s akin to the feeling I get when reading coming of […]

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