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Ship of Ghosts Painting

Caner Karavit

Turkey

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 39.4 W x 27.6 H x 2 D in

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Place …in the east garden where the temples are, there is a heavens temple. It moves around it and never stays in the same place. People only hear its silent melody. Here, there also lives a prophet who talks to the gods. This is why gods are often seen coming and going between the steep, jagged rocks. They’re all in clothes made from bird feathers and prepare an immortality potion for their meals. The locals have no idea if they’re immortal or not. This is why; they name them ghosts and the place the “Ship of Ghosts”. Time Vultures have been portrayed as both good and bad in various mythologies. In the culture of death in the neolithic era, the vulture has been used as both a symbol of astral flight and of the migration of the soul into the sky. While in the early era cultures of the Near East and Anatolia it was believed that the body of the deceased was left to be excarnated (bya gtor in Tibetian, separation from flesh and soul, letting go of the body). The image of the vulture symbolised for them, a god that was responsible to extract the soul of the deceased. They symbolised the burial of the dead high up in the sky, as practised by Tibetian Buddhists and Zarathustras in Iran and India up to the present day. Vultures have been associated not just with death but also with rebirth. For this reason, many depictions of gods have bore vulture’s wings or faces. It is believed that because vultures consume the dead, they uphold the balance between life and death. This is why when the linear flow of time between life and death disappears, vultures enable fresh new space that will turn into new time dimensions by burying the time dimension made of flesh and bones into the vastness of the sky.

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Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:39.4 W x 27.6 H x 2 D in

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Hello all! My name is Caner Karavit. I was born in Edirne and raised in Ankara. Currently, I live in Istanbul. Journey of my artistic outlook could be periodized in two stages. First, the contemporary art-related performances, paintings and printmakings that I executed with domestic and foreign art groups. This period corresponds to my higher art education at Istanbul Fine Arts Academy. In both group performances and individual works, the influence of the Western contemporary art, that I was provided during my art education, was intense. The themes of my Western-style contemporary art works were contributed by the layers of the cultural geography in which I was raised. Second stage is deeply affected by the Chinese art, on which I had education from 2007 on in China. During the first years of my presence in China, in Tsinghua University that I worked with a scholarship, I studied woodcut which is one of the oldest arts in China. In following years, I did research on Chinese Buddhist art and took lectures from Liu Hanshi who is a renowned Chinese painting master. These works and studies of mine rendered me with a comparison between the Western and Eastern art, and a synthesis of them both. Studying both of the artistic waves, not only I observed the differences in use of materials but also the differences in mindsets, with their artistic elements and installations. Accordingly, my studies in China changed my perspective towards the composition. The Chinese philosophy of time and space that influenced Chinese art, in turn predominantly influenced the abovementioned change in my understanding of composition. In this context, focusing on element of line, I reflect the places inversed to convert Chinese concept of time into space.

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