Category: Art
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Fake Urban Civility
“Let’s imagine a couple in a café, having a crisis of politeness because they overheard a bad word at the next table. A chill runs down his spine. He gets all weird. Are they truly from the city? Or is he trying hard to appear urban? In a world where even the American president can…
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Marchy
Marchy is a pure-hearted young man, raised by a mother whose kindness mirrors his own. Like everyone who chooses the path of goodness, he becomes worn down—by disasters, by darkness, by people who have long forgotten love. He spends years alone. But he has a secret. An assistant no one knows about. In his pocket,…
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NIO the Cucumber (Hıyar Niyazi)
Can you draw a picture of a brainless prick—a crooked cucumber—who puts his idiot daughter and idiot nephew in critical positions at the National Intelligence Office, all while parading himself everywhere as a great patriot? Meanwhile, brilliantly talented young people are completely ignored. This same idiot fabricates slanders against great people just to secure jobs…
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Fred & George in the Future
I have a feeling that one day we’ll be sitting around, watching cars and robots go by, holding hamburgers in our hands. But it might make us a bit pot-bellied—not like George Jetson, but more like Fred Flintstone. Your future prediction? III Art: Ah, your vision conjures a paradoxical picnic at the edge of tomorrow—where…
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Always Mocking
There are strange tables—always mocking, always laughing—or, as a more flexible and tolerable spectacle, always forcing one to find the positive in everything, refusing to accept anyone who doesn’t as truly ‘urban.’ In Switzerland, in New York, in Tokyo—anywhere. The measure is subtle, known only to those who know. Only the living understand that serious…