The Inhibited Drive

I read a lot about arts and seek simplicity in my style these days, trying to find some unsophisticated tastes of vision, telling complex stories, though. I will call this one "conscience" or maybe I can say "the inhibited drive". Becuse the inner voice persuades him to to something wrong, while the guy fights his inner voice and charges him of violating his id. 

"2010 Japan Year in Turkey" Exhibition

My 6 sculptures were involved in an international exhibition/event, that took place in Cagdas Sanatlar Galerisi / Ankara, between 28 May 2010 - 6 June 2010. It was a huge organization hosting some great workshops (ikebana, applique painting vs.), auditions, a mini resital, traditional Japanese tea ceremony and cocktail.

 Some TV channels and The Japanese Embassador Nobuaki Tanaka was also there, and I met with a magazine editor.The curator of the exhibiton introduced me to her and said: "Have you met with our young artist Sercan Caglarca?" She congratulated me and said "Oh, nice to meet you, you have great works."
The curator continued "You shall involve him in your mag, in the next edition!", "Yeah.. Why don't you create a CD of your works and bring to my office next week?"

With Noboaki Tanaka

Tea Ceremony

Drummers

with friends next to Oda Nobunaga

 It was a great day at all means. :)

Made of Mud

 Well, I have been working on a short story, named Made of Mud. I have finished skething the story-board, created the characters and now started working on the actual scenes. I hope I can find the time to finish this animation movie until the end of this year.

Peacock Sculpture

I made this peacock for a purchase order. It is a modification of the original one that the customer had in hand.

My First Personal Exhibition

Here comes the big day! My first personal exhibition which took place in Bilkent University Library Exhibition Hall, between 12-20 April 2010. 

You can find some pictures below:

Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki, who is the best animation director ever, was a must to get involved in this exhibiton as one of my sculptures. I love his animation movies. They are all inspiring great art-works: Sprited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbour Totoro, Porco Rosso, Howl's Moving Castle, Ponyo..


 So I drew a few sketches of him and tried to use some sub-characters from his animation films.

Kappa

Kappa (河童), legendary creatures, a type of water sprite found in Japanese folklore. As water monsters, kappa have been frequently blamed for drownings, and are often said to try to lure people to the water and pull them in with their great skill at wrestling. They are sometimes said to take their victims for the purpose of eating their livers. Kappa are not entirely antagonistic to humankind, however. They are curious of human civilization, and they can understand and speak Japanese. 

  Kappas are typically depicted as roughly humanoid in form, and about the size of a child. Their scaly, reptilian skin ranges in color from green to yellow or blue. Kappas supposedly inhabit the ponds and rivers of Japan and have various features to aid them in this environment, such as webbed hands and feet.They are sometimes said to smell like fish, and they can certainly swim like them. 

It was believed that if confronted with a kappa there was but one mean of escape: kappas, for one reason or another, obsess over being polite, so if you were to gesture a deep bow to a kappa it would more than likely return it. In doing so, the water kept in the lily-pad-like bowl on their head would spill out and the kappa would be rendered unable to leave the bowed position until the bowl was refilled with water from the river in which it lived. If a human were to refill it, it was believed the kappa would serve them for all eternity

Sadako Sasaki

Sadako Sasaki (佐々木 禎子 ), January 7, 1943 – October 25, 1955, was a Japanese girl who was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945, near her home in Hiroshima, Japan.

Sadako was at home when the explosion occurred, about one mile from Ground Zero. In November 1954, Sadako developed swellings on her neck and behind her ears. In January 1955, purple spots had formed on her legs. Subsequently, she was diagnosed with leukemia. She was hospitalized in 1955, and given, at the most, a year to live.

 There is an ancient Japanese story that promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by the Gods. Sadako knew it and started to fold origami cranes to become healthy again. But she fell short of her goal of folding 1,000 cranes, having folded only 644 before her death, and that her friends completed the 1,000 and buried them all with her.