The Storyteller Begins

Food coloring & acrylic on canvas, 70 x 90 cm, 4.000 Turkish Liras

Baghdad was a center of science, art, and culture during the Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258), considered the Islamic Golden Age. Set in this legendary world, the famous 1,001 Arabian Nights, a masterpiece of Middle East literature, presents a collection of folk tales transmitted verbally from one generation to the next by the all-important storyteller. (Scheherazade is perhaps the most famous.)

Inspired by a 13th-century Persian ceramic bowl