Jeddah and the inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale
In March 2023, I was fortunate to be invited by my friend, film director Ovidio Salazar, to attend the inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Some of the installations at the biennale, and pieces of art in galleries I saw around the city, were breathtakingly beautiful.
Ayten Tiryaki, master calligrapher and illuminator of Istanbul
Through a contact at the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts, I had been put in touch with a calligraphy and illumination Hodja (master) living on the Asian side of the Bosporus.