Nakkaştepe

The concept of intermittence appears in the artist’s work titled Nakkaştepe, produced as part of the series titled Hazbahçe. Baba Nakkaş, also the founder of one of the earliest Naqshbandi convents, pioneered the founding of the first miniature workshop at the Ottoman palace during the reign of Mehmed II. Today, the steep street leading down from the Nakkaştepe Nation’s Garden to Kuzguncuk is named Babanakkaş Street, and for the artist this steep slope that leads to the shore, delineated with high walls on both sides, is the intermittent, seductive space.