B Dock Netsel Marina
Marmaris, Turkey
Merhaba,
I haven’t written for a while as my friend Sheila pointed out recently. But all is well. We are in the process of selling DoraMac. When everything has been completed, I will write about it and introduce the new owners. In the meantime, Randal is going over everything on the boat so it will be a ready for the new owners who plan to return in June for Randal to do some intensive training. Then we will open the special bottle of wine to celebrate.
In the meantime several of us all went off to Annette to get our hair trimmed, cut, highlighted and “fringed.”
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Coni getting her hair trimmed by Annette before getting the top highlighted. Me with my new “fringe” or what we call bangs. I also had several inches cut off the bottom. |
This past Saturday Randal and I went to the small art and culture center. I’d noticed the exhibit was about Ataturk and knew Randal would be interested.
Although neither Randal or I are experts on either Turkish history in general, or Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in particular, we are both great admirers of the goals he had for Turkey. Modernism, equality for women, a secular government. Randal has wanted a portrait of Ataturk to hang in what will be “his space” when our future home is built. Saturday we found one painted by a local artist. It will be perfect.
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Benim Atatürk’üm My Ataturk 1 was the exhibit at the Art and Culture House
M.(Mehmet) Korkmaz Picture Exhibition “Dedicated to my dear father Mustafa Korkmaz” |
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Mehmet Korkmaz and Randal with the portrait Randal had chosen. https://www.facebook.com/people/Mehmet-Korkmaz/1105177803 is the facebook page of the artist, but alas, it’s all in Turkish. |
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One day the painting will hang in our house in Roanoke, but for now, it will hang in the saloon on DoraMac. |
Below is the translation of the local article about the artist and the exhibit. The translation is not good to say the least, but two quotes by the artist do stand out and make it worth reading.
Mugla (UAV) Marmarisli retired tradesman painter Mehmet Korkmaz, consisting of pictures of Atatürk “My Ataturk I” 2. Give the name of the collection that opened his personal exhibition.
Marmaris Municipality Culture and Art House Exhibition Hall yesterday (April 21, 2015) to place the opening ceremony; Vice President Dursun Marmaris Municipality Kaplan, CHP Councillors Acer Celebrities and participated in numerous art lovers.
Speaking at the opening Korkmaz painter; When I finished school teacher in 1974, my greatest desire was to enter the picture in any part of the fine arts academy. But I could not enter.
I desire to make images; My heart is always somewhere in the painting waited When I created the environment. After retiring, but I was able to capture this opportunity. Since three years I tried to do something on my own scale amateurish. Of course I have an academic career. What my time nor the opportunity to have such a career after this time. Marmaris three years since, despite not getting the money I wanted and with the possibilities of Marmaris Municipality “Art Street” where I tried to open an area known as the pictures about myself. No countertop make me money even if I win big picture tirelessly tried to explore new worlds. That street was my school. My father Mustafa Korkmaz teachers have participated in the six-month tutorial Aksu Village Institute in 1942, three years after finishing primary school and “trainers” has become known as the tutorial teacher status. My father was a teacher for thirty three years in the village and in the surrounding villages. My dear father was one of the unsung heroes of enlightenment in Turkey Mustafa Korkmaz gratitude and remembrance mercy goes on, I am dedicating my show my father. “He said.
All studied oil painting technique consisting of 50 pictures Korkmaz exhibition will remain open until 28 April.
Mehmet Korkmaz has a stall in Iҫmeler just down the seaside from Marmaris.
To learn more about Ataturk go to this link from our website. http://www.mydoramac.com/ankara-trip-day-1-part-2-ataturk/ It tells of our visit to the Atatürk mausoleum and museum complex in Ankara in 2013. Atatürk was a Turkish nationalist leader and the founder and first president of the republic of Turkey.