Mobile Artists on Their Artistry – Interview with Mehmet Duyulmuş from Istanbul, Turkey

I am a person who likes taking pictures whenever and wherever I have the chance.  Most of the time I process them on my iPhone or iPad using several apps to reach an image which expresses my feelings.  The end product is often a pictorial collage. With new technology I can now find and carry all the necessary tools to create and paint just in my pocket.

I use my name along with the high school I had attended in Istanbul: mduyulmus_stbenoitsb.  I always consider myself lucky to have attended Lycée de St Benoit in Istanbul where I learned to look at the world from an entirely different perspective. Yes, it was a conscious decision to express my gratitude.

A large and crowded conventional and quite conservative family.  I was the youngest of the four and therefore the favorite of my parents.  We were a closely knit family where there was no shortage of love and pampering, so I was a bit spoiled.

Most probably it did because I remember daydreaming a lot and  although as a child I was just getting newly acquainted with cinema and TV,  I had very vivid, colourful movie like photographic  dreams!

To a certain extent yes but they did not think of encouraging me to study art.  They appreciated that I occupied myself with dreams and kept quiet . As a matter of fact I come from a family where all the members have been merchants for generations. During my student years I worked as a tourist guide to earn my pocket money. So it was my destiny to become a businessman!

When I started watching movies, of course, I wanted to be a movie star.  Acting was my primal goal.  A goal that due to circumstances I could not pursue and had to forget. However, years later while I and my wife were advising our son and daughter to do or to study whatever they wanted something dawned on me. We told them to choose to study fine arts, drama or cinema… and that it was never too late to decide or to change their minds, my longing to be engaged in art was triggered.

Expressing things in one’s own way.

I was and still am a businessman.

Almost anywhere where I can concentrate.

Things around me. Nature, people, events…stories, news…Travelling, visiting museums, galleries, concerts…inspiration is everywhere!

My fellow mobile and digital artist friends, the works and styles of certain painters and sculptors and of course great masters.

Yes it does.  You get to know people and others get to know you.

I live in a country where economy is very fragile!  In this fluctuating atmosphere most of my day is filled with business matters. But in the evening I can push away the black clouds and relax by opening the doors to art and creativity.

Question what they see. Well it changes depending on what one sees or who sees what!

Yes.

I am a self-taught iPhone and iPad Pro user.  I work through trial and error  method. Sometimes failure is inevitable but this doesn’t discourage me.

I try to take it on the light side!  No harsh criticism please!

We were confined to our homes for a long time.  I had a hard time getting over the uncertainty and the anxiety of those days but to be frank I became much more productive.

Frida Kahlo! If she knew she could paint and make art with a small mobile device in her bed!  That might have eased her pain.  I would like to discuss with her how drawing and painting on an iPad  might have influenced her later work.

Seize the day! Never too late! Love makes the World go round!

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