camel circus

surfing the turkish cable channels, we recently stumbled upon this fantastic azerbaijan channel:



camel humps will always be strange to me.

our killer view

it's like being greeted with brand new art every day. i can't stop taking pictures out our windows!

at sunrise

during the day

at sunset


at night

new place

our street

our home

a few days before we left

we actually got to ENJOY chicago.

taking brunch to the next level (at Jam) with friends.

cy twombly, art institute of chicago

gerhardt richter, art institute of chicago

olafur eliasson, museum of contemporary art

seeing art so good, i got emotional just being near them.

resuscitate and renew

after a year of wandering, i am heading back to Istanbul. i will be there for a whole year, starting a new chapter in my life, one that feels exciting and scary and very mysterious. while i have ideas and projects planned, i really don't know how my time there will pan out. but this time i feel ready to face that mystery and really embrace whatever might happen. it'll be strange to go back to a place that once seemed so exotic and foreign to me. now it just feels like moving back to the the old 'hood. but i know there's so much more to discover and learn about.

so much has happened this past year that this time last year, when i started this blog, now feels like ages ago. it's funny how you think time is flying by, but when you stop to really take stock of everything that's gone on, you feel like you've aged 10 years. when i look back on the (oh so few) entries i've written, i almost feel like i'm reading about someone else's life.

but, unlike the last time i was here, i am ready to really live there. i am ready to be open to what Istanbul is as a place, and not as a destination. this time, i really can't wait.