ongoing projects:

istanbul travel deck

a moment I watched unfold

a mysterious watery place

one of my favorite places in the city

a central park with curved paths like layers of cake, joggers, and dogs

an ottoman palace built like an internested labyrinth

a hilly garden of an old ottoman palace, and one of my favorite parks in the world

a bridge to watch the sunset, between ancient landmarks and Istanbul motifs

if I had to choose one touristy place to visit in istanbul, it would be this.

a long, open waterfront park on the asia side of Istanbul

the beginning of a travel deck for istanbul

a moment from my walk in the park

POV: cat looking at me from above the cafe

the mood of wet istanbul winters

autumn in istanbul is moody; wet but not cold.

on sunday afternon we left the house late and took a 1.5 hour ferry to get to prince islands

this red dot is me: traveling from my home on top of a hill to catch the dolmuş

all the ways in which my day-to-day has changed after adopting a dog

my istanbul life continued

i spent the last three mornings looking for a black cat — which wasn’t even mine to begin with

a deposition of the things i saw and felt on the way

they are not exactly tasty but i still can’t stop eating them

ongoing curations of my istanbul, with places of interest and places of headache

on interspecies love, games, and care — how living with a cat makes a house feel more homey and magical

I haven’t written about my day to day life in a while - perhaps because, ever since I started traveling, (and even after I “stopped”) the days continue to float by like a dream

of winter inhabiting my istanbul life, and the art i made