tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-288321912012-01-09T20:25:58.617ZNPP AT ADAM STREETNPPnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28832191.post-1148810882088323972006-02-07T11:11:00.003Z2008-08-15T20:53:05.842+01:00Istanbul London? Yeah!NPP took a taste of Turkey to London under the title of:<p></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:180%;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">PEACE AT HOME<br />PEACE IN THE WORLD</span></span><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;">9 Adam Street, The Strand, London WC1<br /><a href="http://www.adamstreet.co.uk/">www.adamstreet.co.uk</a><br />28 Jan – 11 Feb 2006</div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <span lang="EN-GB">As well as <a href="http://nppadamstreet.blogspot.com/2006/01/2006-adam-street-paintings.html">paintings</a>, the taste included <st1:country-region st="on"></st1:country-region><st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on"></st1:address></st1:street> Cikolatı Lokum from The Marmara Pera hotel and Kurukahveci Mehmet Effendi Turkish coffee. </span><span lang="EN-GB">SETUR arranged the flights to and from London. We also flew a live <a href="http://nppmevlevi.blogspot.com/">Mevlevi</a> to spin for our guests.<br /><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p></span><span style=""> </span>Photography by Abdulkadir Besikci & NPP.<p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20060207Kadir-36.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20060207Kadir-36.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span lang="EN-GB">According to the story Noah’s <st1:state st="on">Ark</st1:state> came to rest on Mount Ararat in present day <st1:place st="on">Eastern Turkey</st1:place>. The dove, olive branch and 7 colours of the rainbow signalled the end of the great flood.</span></p></div><span style=""> </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p>The whirling dervish movement was founded in <st1:city st="on">Konya</st1:city>, <st1:place st="on">Central Turkey</st1:place> by Jelaleddin Mevlana Rumi (1207-1273). He proclaimed love as the dynamic force and his <i>Sema</i> dance represents the mystical journey of people’s spiritual ascent through mind and love to perfection. There are 7 parts to the Sema ceremony, the 7<sup>th</sup> part being a prayer for the repose of the souls of all prophets and believers. According to Rumi, love is the positive energy that is responsible for interaction between particles, thus connecting everything with everything else in the universe. So everything in the universe is interdependent.<span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><span style=""> </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p>The secular democratic <st1:placetype st="on">Republic</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st="on">Turkey</st1:placename> was founded in 1923 consisting of 7 internal regions and touched by 7 bordering countries: <st1:country-region st="on">Greece</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region st="on">Bulgaria</st1:country-region>, <st1:city st="on">Armenia</st1:city>, <st1:country-region st="on">Georgia</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region st="on">Syria</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region st="on">Iran</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</span></p> <span lang="EN-GB">To create awareness for the Rainbow Bridge peace project and its related 7 synergy, on Tuesday 7<sup>th</sup> February at 7pm a Mevalana “Whirling Dervish” turned at Adam Street Club in a meditation and philosophy of peace, announcing the message: </span><span style=""> </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">“Come, come who ever you are, however you are, just come.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, left the country with a standard-bearer slogan for the nation: PEACE AT HOME, PEACE IN THE WORLD.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><span style=""> </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We didn't expect world peace to break out over night, but every little drop helps make an ocean.</span> <span lang="EN-GB">NPP hoped visitors learnt a little bit more about Turkiye and the messages of peace originating from a country where East meets West.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/Adam%20Street%20e-invitation.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/Adam%20Street%20e-invitation.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>The invitation<p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p></div><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/Adam%20St%20Xmas%20Card.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/Adam%20St%20Xmas%20Card.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Xmas Card e-mail to Adam Street members<br /><br /><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p></div><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20060210-03.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20060210-03.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Brian Sewell? Yeah!<p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20060210-04.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20060210-04.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Ned & <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Sewell">Brian Sewell</a>, art critic for London's Evening Standard newspaper.<br />Brian says Ned has a "painterly" style.<br /><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p></div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20060207Kadir-42.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20060207Kadir-42.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><st1:personname st="on">Standing i</st1:personname>n The Strand.<br /><br /><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p></div><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20060207Kadir-12.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20060207Kadir-12.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Steve Swales, head sculptor at Madame Tusaud's.<br /><br /><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p></div><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20060207Kadir-32.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20060207Kadir-32.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20060207Kadir-25.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20060207Kadir-25.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20060207Kadir-10.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20060207Kadir-10.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20060207-27.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20060207-27.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>From Istanbul to London, our Adam Street Dervis, Selcuk Gurez.<br /><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20060207-24.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20060207-24.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Mum.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20060207-28.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20060207-28.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Dad.<br /><br /></p> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20060207-15.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20060207-15.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20060207Kadir-15.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20060207Kadir-15.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Ned with Tolga Tuyluoglu, Turkey's Cultural Attache in London<br /><br /><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p></div><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20060207Kadir-03.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20060207Kadir-03.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20060207-05.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20060207-05.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20060207-09.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20060207-09.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Our sponsors: The Marmara? Yeah! SETUR? Yeah!<br />Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi? Yeah!<br />DHL? No comment.<br /><br />Adam Street Members Club - the gallery...<br /><p class="MsoNormal"></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p></div><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20060207-08.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20060207-08.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20060207-01.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20060207-01.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20060131-08.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20060131-08.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20060131-06.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20060131-06.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20060131-01.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20060131-01.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p></div><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/20051113-006.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/20051113-006.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Adam Street Members Club - the front door entrance.<p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p></div><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28832191-114881088208832397?l=nppadamstreet.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>NPPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28832191.post-1148734173313827852006-01-28T11:11:00.002Z2008-08-15T20:49:18.268+01:002006 Adam Street Paintings<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >PEACE AT HOME<br />PEACE IN THE WORLD<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >YURTTA SULH, CIHANDA SULH</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/08219-17012006.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/08219-17012006.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">A Turkish History Story</span><br />Istanbul 2006 acrylic on canvas 100cm x 175cm<br /><br /><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/08199-28112005.4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/08199-28112005.2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Winston Churchill</span><br />Istanbul 2005 acrylic on canvas 100cm x 70cm<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">"Ataturk's death is not only a loss for the country, but for Europe is the greatest loss, he who saved Turkey in the war and who revived a new the Turkish nation after the war. The sincere tears shed after him by all classes of people is nothing other than an appropriate manifestation to this great hero and modern Turkey's Ata."<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Winston Churchill, Prime Minister UK</span><br /><br /><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12;"><st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on"></st1:place></st1:country-region></span></strong><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/08221-18012006.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/08221-18012006.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Adam Street Ataturk Smiles</span><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;">Istanbul 2006 acrylic on canvas 100cm x 70cm<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">“Freedom consists of man’s ability to do what he thinks and desires without any influence or intervention by others. This is the broadest definition of the concept. Mankind has never attained liberty to this extent and never will because as is known, men are creations of nature and nature itself is not absolutely free either; it is subject to universal laws.”<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ataturk c.1930</span><br /></div><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/08217-04012006.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/08217-04012006.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Abi, cay molasi? II</span><br />Istanbul 2006 acrylic on canvas 100cm x 70cm<br /><br /><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/08223-20012006.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/08223-20012006.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rainbow Bar Code Dervis</span><br />Istanbul 2006 acrylic on canvas 100cm x 78cm<br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/08218-14012006.2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/08218-14012006.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Where East Meets West: London Istanbul? Yeah! III</span><br />Istanbul 2006 acrylic on canvas 100cm x 175cm<br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/08222-18012006.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/08222-18012006.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ying Yang Dervis</span><br />Istanbul 2006 acrylic on canvas 100cm x 78cm<br /><br /><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/08069-18022003.3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/08069-18022003.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gol? Yeah!</span><br />Istanbul 2003 acrylic on canvas 100cm x 175cm<br /><br /><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/08200-30112005.2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/08200-30112005.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Big Blue Nazarboncugu</span><br />Istanbul 2005 acrylic on canvas 107cm x 100cm<br /><br /><br /></div> </div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/08203-04122005.4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/08203-04122005.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bosphorus Kiss in Red</span><br />Istanbul 2005 acrylic on canvas 107cm x 100cm<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/08220-18012006.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/08220-18012006.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ataturk's Vision</span><br />Istanbul 2006 acrylic on canvas 107cm x 100cm<br /><br /><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/08215-01012006.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/08215-01012006.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Sultan's Sign in White</span><br />Istanbul 2006 acrylic on canvas 107cm x 100cm<br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/08216-03012006.2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/08216-03012006.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Turkish Figures II</span><br />Istanbul 2006 acrylic on canvas 100cm x 175cm<br /><br /></div> </div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/08207-09122005.2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/320/08207-09122005.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Noel Baba</span><br />Istanbul 2005 acrylic on canvas 100cm x 70cm<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/729/2943/1600/08218-14012006.2.jpg"><br /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28832191-114873417331382785?l=nppadamstreet.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>NPPnoreply@blogger.com