C A R I A N*P R O J E C T

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Some of the Goddesses post fire... #clay #sculptures #pitfire #womenartists #tactile #texture #touch #exploretocreate #ephemeral #amosantikkenti #carianproject

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Preparing the fire for the goddesses....

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Taryn’s homecoming.

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Preparing for exhibition at Halka Sanat Projesi, Istanbul in October… First fire for this goddess🔥

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Dalga Kapsamı • Wave Scope (ephemeral, 2018)

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Silver Spires emerging....

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Swift be the Spirits that rise with golden crowns reaching towards the sky.

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Mediterranean Hartwort. Küçük geyik otü. Roman Pimpernel. Tordylium apulum. A hermaphrodite; this plant is self fertile. Classified as part of the carrot family. A perennial whose leaves are edible. A popular and important aromatic herb used in Greek culinary. In ancient times, was used to help cure kidney disease. Found growing all around Amos Antik Kenti at this time.

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Spring in Amos Antik Kenti

Spring came early this year, starting in March. The wild blue lichen flowers rose early and have already passed. Poppies peppered the hills of Amos and grew out of the cracks of ancient ruins. Thyme is now soaring, growing rapid and wild reaching high towards the sun. Now all is hidden in the ancient city. The grasses and wild flowers are knee high and the ruins have disappeared temporarily. Now  star clover dominates the terrain along with Mediterranean hart wort( a strange looking herb with a circular head that visibly houses a seed protected by a transparent veil surrounded by a white, serrated edge) and so many other incredible flora that remains unknown to me by name. There is so much to discover on the ground. When you get down close to the earth and really spend time looking, feeling, touching and wondering. It's hypnotic. 

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Full on star shine all over Amos. 

Flower type: star clover, yıldız üçgül 

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Red wild clay totem.  This totem fits inside the palm of my hand made from wild red clay I recently discovered on a hillside on the outskirts of our village in Turunç, Turkey. Crystals were growing in the clay bed so this is extra magical clay full of amplified earth energy. I made this totem a small size to conserve my supply until I can find more red clay as there was only little available. A village elder woman recently told me there is red clay up in the mountains. I intend to go seek it out after the next rainfall. This totem is a symbolic gesture made for my dear friend and artistic collaborator of Carian Project, Taryn Tomasello.

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Clay Exploration: mixed wild clay combination. Earth Body Topographies.

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Sun Effigy. Wild clay exploration continues....

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Perspectives of an unguenarium/tear bottle. Wood fired wild clay.

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What Do You Feel?

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Edge of Days. Ancient city soaked in rain, heavy with the smells of earth and sea.

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Edge of Days

Determined to visit ancient Amos one last time before the start of the new year, I walked through the pouring rain soaking up the smells of earth and sea. This site has grown to be a large part of my life for the past year and a half. I’ve endlessly explored its terrain, feeling my way around and creating work on site. My hope for the new year is to continue my intuitive research practice a.k.a “feel studies” and my exploration of wild clay: creating forms and sculptures in situ, some raw(uncooked) left on site and others cooked in the fire. My hope is to extend this project to create work on site at two other important ancient Carian sites: Stratonikea and Lagina, also based in the Muğla region of Turkey. I believe this extension would allow me to further my studies of the mysterious Carian people and explore new ways of seeing, feeling and creating.