Art: Balloon from Daily Magnificence series by Çağrı Yılmaz
CULVERT
My unassuming heart
became a valley
amassing waters and debris;
a vehicle for rain
dashing down the sides
in emergency free-fall.
It isn’t true to say
that the valley gloved the heart,
it was the heart,
rent in the same way
a clearing is made
by great and incremental
incidents. Partly
the valley remains
visible beneath land
that’s been cleared
for new lives and families
– its pulse ebbs in culverts
below neat estates.
This furtive love trickles
deeper and deeper.
About the author:
Heidi Williamson is a UK-based poet and creative writing tutor. She work world-wide with poets by Skype for the Poetry Society (UK) and teaches for the Poetry School, The Writing Coach and SAW Trust – a charity bringing research science into schools.
Williamson’s first collection, Electric Shadow (Bloodaxe, 2011) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize. Her second, The Print Museum (Bloodaxe, 2016) won the Book by the Cover Award and the Poetry Category of the East Anglian Book Awards.
Her two award-winning Bloodaxe collections are Electric Shadow (2011) and The Print Museum (2016). She works with poets world-wide as a Poetry Surgeon for The Poetry Society, teaches for the Poetry School and mentors writers through The Writing Coach. www.
Art: Balloon from Daily Magnificence series by Çağrı Yılmaz
In the artist’s words:
I was born in 1980 in Istanbul and I was graduated from Architecture Faculty of Yildiz Technical University in the fall term of 2004. Afterwards, I worked on concept development and presentation in various architectural offices. In 2013, as a result of a search for a valuable hobby, I started shooting photos of daily life objects. Soon afterwards, I built the website “www.resifdesign.com”. In 2015, when I had enough works and courage to hold an exhibition, I started sharing my works in venues appealing to everyone. With great passion, I have been continuing with my avant-garde photography works that involve daily magnificence and that have been increasingly developed from past to today …
Daily Magnificence
“Awareness”, that is my unique goal for my photography works. In such a modern world which is crazy for consumption and where possession has been so much facilitated, replacing something and forgetting the old one has already gone too far to be found strange. Many elements in life have started to be appreciated only when they are lost. At this point, my awareness comes into play and I present unusual points of view, full of true life experiences, through daily life objects for you to take a glance at your surrounding and to realize how wealthy you are …
Exhibitions
2015
Levent Loft Residence
Akatlar Cultural Center
City’s Ni§anta§i
Sanyer Cultural Center
Sapphire istanbul
2016
Bahariye Art Gallery
Ya§ar Kemal Cultural Center
Mandal Art, Platform
Denovadent Clinic
Mixer Art, Editions
Mercedes-Benz Service
Beyoglu Cultural Center
2017
World Art Day, AAS Art Center
Fulya Art Center
ART Ankara Contemporary Art Fair
Mixer Art, Editions
Taksim Ataturk Library