Blog Like an Iceberg, Blooming Unseen beneath the Surface

I had to complete a final report for the grant I received to teach in Turkey. One of the items was to describe my most important achievement of the year abroad. Even though I was a pioneering foreign member of a department, I designed a new course (the new media/installation/performance class), I opened two one-person exhibitions, and I almost got arrested, I without hesitation wrote that this blog was my most significant accomplishment. Because of the number of people I have reached, the broad range of topics I tried to explore, and the consistent visual theme of identity and sexuality I pursued (how’s that for ArtSpeak), this blog touches on all I want to do with my art. Plus it is very important to me personally.
So with that in mind, I have decided not to end the blog, at least for now. And that includes keeping the name, even though Kloe is no longer exactly Among the Turks. I’m now taking a broader understanding of “Turk,” using it in the old-fashioned sense of “Young Turks” (although I have no opinion about Young Turks and genocide; I take the definition of a progressive group).
Cool sculpture by Joanne Hawakawa.