Ö. Merken
Artist | Professional | Varied

Turkey

I'd rather to mention myself something else then professional. And I decry it's popular and presistent usage. I find it insulting for the nature of artistic behaviour.

In the other hand, I cannot claim an artistic stance for myself. Unfortunately, I'm not that emotion-based to rely on artistic aspects of the mind..) So I'm much of a trained "artist" mostly.

I think that "talent" is not someting like fruits. Like apple, orange; as for arts, music, cinema.. For me, talent is the potential. And definitions such as those art branches are just skills, extensions of this potential which depend on one's willing to expand it.

With such an understanding, as an industrial product designer currently deployed in Istanbul, I'm also focusing on digital and traditional illustrations for magazines, technical and scientific illustrations for encyclopedias and also in the advertisement bussiness as a concept designer and storyboard artist..for my living.

How unprofessional..)

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