The Experience
« Chin up, dignity intact, this well-respected lady has sold tissues around the Spice Bazaar for years.
Her gentle smile and proffered pack of tissue are a welcome contrast to the importunate whines of peddlers and professional street beggars.
Here she sits in the old entrance to the Eminonu Tram Stop, her crutch neatly wedged between the handrail and the wall.
It’s cold wet winter, and she’s sitting on plastic over cardboard, well wrapped up in a heavy skirt and a clean sweater.
She’s got her water bottle and her packs of tissue and her change and her spit-in-the-eye spirit, and I have always loved her.
I believe we are the same age. She didn’t want to sit still for a drawing, but allowed me to take her picture, which I used to create this portrait.
The government remodeled the tram stop and closed this stairway just after I drew her. I haven’t yet found her new spot, and I miss her. »
Who’s Telling the Story
Istanbul, Turkey, 2013
Trici (United-States) Artist from Los Angeles, Trici emerges from the digital creation. In 1999, she returned to paper and pencil and settled in Turkey. Since then, she has been drawing the ancient ruins of the Ottoman basin before it is too late …
T’en penses quoi?
Emensis itaque difficultatibus multis et nive obrutis callibus plurimis ubi prope Rauracum ventum est ad supercilia fluminis Rheni, resistente multitudine Alamanna pontem suspendere navium conpage Romani vi nimia vetabantur ritu grandinis undique convolantibus telis, et cum id inpossibile videretur, imperator cogitationibus magnis attonitus, quid capesseret ambigebat.
Incenderat autem audaces usque ad insaniam homines ad haec, quae nefariis egere conatibus, Luscus quidam curator urbis subito visus: eosque ut heiulans baiolorum praecentor ad expediendum quod orsi sunt incitans vocibus crebris. qui haut longe postea ideo vivus exustus est.
Novo denique perniciosoque exemplo idem Gallus ausus est inire flagitium grave, quod Romae cum ultimo dedecore temptasse aliquando dicitur Gallienus, et adhibitis paucis clam ferro succinctis vesperi per tabernas palabatur et conpita quaeritando