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SEEING THROUGH DRAWING How did these drawings come to life?
SEEING THROUGH DRAWING How did these drawings come to life? I’m here to tell you my story!!! They didn’t appear overnight. They emerged from a long journey that began in childhood—through drawing, walking, travelling, and observing cities and people. (There are no photos of me drawing because those were the days before we had a camera. :))

Şebnem Kayhan
Aug 245 min read


When Emotion Touches the Body, It Becomes a Manifesto
On the re-embodiment of emotion through the body, fabric, and movement When we look at a garment, we often notice its form first: its color, fabric, cut, and the way it sits on the body. Yet clothing carries a far more complex meaning than its visible form suggests. It is a moving surface positioned between the body and the world; one that can hold memory, identity, desire, the need for protection, belonging, and rebellion all at once. For me, a garment has never been merely

Şebnem Kayhan
Aug 310 min read


Just before leaving İzmir
Just before leaving İzmir, I opened my iPad and sketched this quickly. No perfectionism, no plan.Just that feeling of “let me leave whatever’s still inside me somewhere before I go.” Sometimes it’s not the sketchbook that opens, but the iPad; sometimes it’s not a pen, but the Apple Pencil that takes my hand.But the tool never matters — it’s the last moment of contact I make with the city. This drawing is exactly that:the soft melancholy of the return trip,the thin threshold b

Şebnem Kayhan
Nov 23, 20251 min read
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