"Turn and face the strange" -David Bowie

                             Shaken Image Works from Hacettepe University, 2018 @Pera museum

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower" Albert Camus

                                                           yayoi kusama, leaf

“Colours, like features, follow the changes of the emotions'"- Picasso

                                                                                         Picasso, Blaue Phase, 1901-1905

the process of writing poetry

“I think we’re doing a kind of meditation writing poetry. When I get into the zone, I lose track of time. I feel centered. I am discovering things that I imagine have been waiting in my subconscious to reveal themselves to me.”

 — Laura Kasischke

                                                          Anselm Kiefer "Books with Wings"

"The future of the world is now in my classroom today" - Fitzwater

I am a proud teacher of amazing students. Today I have learned that one of my students in the department of English Literature from the Beykent University-Istanbul  is going to be the English teacher of one my children.
Thank you so much Ashley, you have made my day 💗

“I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, but of course it isn’t” - Robert Mapplethorpe

                         Robert Mapplethorpe, curated by artist, Roe Ethridge, Gladstone Gallery, 2018 

'There cannot be creation without a lot of energy' -Emil Nolde

Dear Students,

This is a nice article on "Holocaust Literature" by Stef Craps and might be interesting for those who are planning to work on a Ma Thesis in Translation Studies, English Literature and Comparative Literature. The article attempts to theorize the interrelatedness of the Holocaust and other histories of victimization. Combining the umbrella term of memory studies from the national to the transnational level, and, a comparative study on Jewish and postcolonial studies. The main purpose is to prevent the Holocaust and histories of slavery and colonial domination in the same frame. 

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ehrc/events/memory/craps_-_alexie.pdf

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7163.Best_Holocaust_Literature

“Ocean separates lands, not souls..” ― Munia Khan

Self Potrait by Jean Cocteau in a letter to Paul Valery, October 1924