In Stereo: Dialogue2010 Live

by rosedeniz May 6, 2010 art

Tweet Dialogue2010: The inaugural Art is Dialogue conversation between 9 cultural innovators on art, culture, and hybrid identity on February 28, 2010 facilitated by me and hosted by expat+HAREM is live! Inspired by my post on “Mapping the Imagination” at expat+HAREM, our conversation created a living definition of hybrid identity and how one’s worldview literally shifts as a result of location. […]

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Half life

by rosedeniz April 27, 2010 art

Tweet I live a double life. Half of me is resident crumb-sweeper and bedtime storyteller of our family of four, while the other half is mentally miles away dreaming up projects, threading the needle of a story, and compulsively suggesting to Amazon that Penguin make The Poisoner’s Handbook available on the Kindle until it is. […]

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Process-oriented

by rosedeniz April 14, 2010 drawing

Tweet From 2002-2004, whenever I went into my studio to paint, I read books. I started nearly each and every day with an hour or more of reading and note-taking, checking for new books in our tiny but well-stocked art library. My MFA in Painting thesis had more poetry than painting in it with ‘titles […]

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On resurfacing

by rosedeniz April 7, 2010 creativity

Tweet Or: on having a sensitivity-challenged sensory system while traveling abroad with two children and one unabashedly devoted husband and father to said-children, now back home to the tune of jet lag and the search for foods easy-to-obtain in the US but missing from most grocery-store shelves in Turkey: bagels, Philadelphia cream cheese, unsweetened peanut […]

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Poised to pause

by rosedeniz March 18, 2010 creativity

Tweet Like the Haley’s Comet of all Naps, holidays at Love, Rose seem 75 years apart. But it’s happening: I have a date with the beach, energetic recuperation, The Lives of Girls and Women waiting to be read, and sleep to catch up on. Things have felt edgy lately, brilliant and bright, full of promise, but […]

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Verbal footprints

by rosedeniz March 4, 2010 Art is Dialogue

Tweet Home prints / photo by Rose Deniz Sezin described us as ‘intimate strangers,’ Anastasia a ‘carillon,’ each person’s comments creating a verbal percussion. The nine women who gathered on Sunday to participate in Dialogue2010 astounded me with their clarity of vision, their engagement with creativity, their willingness to bend and flex through identity and language […]

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Path finder

by rosedeniz February 24, 2010 expat

Tweet The path from there to here involved some stops along the way, but I’m a Midwesterner through and through. This illustration is a visual trajectory of the direction I took. On any given day, the things that affect my perception change. It can be something as immediate as noisy construction, the call to prayer, or […]

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Conversational crossroads

by rosedeniz February 18, 2010 Art is Dialogue

Tweet Mapping my hybrid life on a personal, passion level involves drawings, notations, and novel writing. The stuff I do daily. When it connects with others, like in conversation with the 10 cultural innovators I’ll be talking to on Feb 28 as part of Dialogue2010 at expat+HAREM, it becomes multi-dimensional, an elixir of dynamic change […]

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Silk Road Stories

by rosedeniz February 10, 2010 Art is Dialogue

Tweet Friendships made in just a few short hours. Life stories shared, professional commonalities discovered, mothering suggestions offered, all while eating some of the best Turkish food I’ve had in Turkey. The women I met from the Bursa International Women’s Association were French, Italian, German, Russian, American, and more. How were we able to relate to […]

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