YEMIS ODASI
A stylized still life: a bowl of fruit and flowers painted onto ceramic. It depicts what it was made to hold and is full before it is used. Ceramic is both image and support.
A stylized still life: a bowl of fruit and flowers painted onto ceramic. It depicts what it was made to hold and is full before it is used. Ceramic is both image and support.
The title refers to the Fruit Room (Yemis Odasi), a chamber in the Harem of Topkapi Palace built for Sultan Ahmed III in the early 1700s, where painted wooden panels show bowls of fruit and vases of flowers.
Here the motif moves from painted wood to ceramic. At times I remove the bowl and keep only the fruit, and the abundance and splendor of that tradition are pared down to silhouette, repeated until it becomes a pattern in its own right.
Yemis Odasi / ceramic bowls, large Ø 26 cm, h. 8 cm; small Ø 16 cm, h. 5 cm
Yemis Odasi /ceramic bowl, Ø 26 cm, h. 8 cm
Yemis Odasi / ceramic bowl, Ø 26 cm, h. 8 cm
Yemis Odasi / ceramic plate, Ø 40 cm
Yemis Odasi / ceramic plate, Ø 34 cm, h. 3 cm
Yemis Odasi / ceramic plate, Ø 34 cm, h. 2.5 cm
Yemis Odasi / ceramic plate, Ø 34 cm, h. 2,5 cm
Yemis Odasi / ceramic plate, Ø 34 cm, h. 2,5 cm
Yemis Odasi / ceramic tile, 20 × 20 cm
Yemis Odasi / ceramic tile, 20 × 20 cm
Yemis Odasi / ceramic tile, 20 × 20 cm
Yemis Odasi / ceramic plate, Ø 40 cm
Yemis Odasi / ceramic tile, 20 × 20 cm
Yemis Odasi / ceramic tile, 20 × 20 cm
Yemis Odasi / ceramic tiles, each 20 × 20 cm
Yemis Odasi / ceramic tile, 20 × 20 cm
Yemis Odasi / ceramic tile, 20 × 20 cm
Yemis Odasi: Pomegranate / ceramic sculpture, h. 11 cm
Yemis Odasi / ceramic plate, Ø 40 cm
Yemis Odasi: Pomegranates / ceramic sculptures, each h. 11 cm
