Portfolio > Foundations Series

Gabrielle Reeves: Foundations / Temeller 1
Acrylic Ink on Paper
11" x 7"
2016
Gabrielle Reeves: Foundations / Temeller 2
Acrylic Ink on Paper
11" x 7"
2016
Gabrielle Reeves: Foundations / Temeller 3
Acrylic Ink on Paper
11" x 7"
2016
Gabrielle Reeves: Foundations / Temeller 4
Acrylic Ink on Paper
11" x 7"
2017
Gabrielle Reeves: Foundations / Temeller 5
Acrylic Ink on Paper
7" x 11"
2017
Gabrielle Reeves: Foundations / Temeller 6
Acrylic Ink on Paper
7"x11"
2017
Gabrielle Reeves: Foundations 7
Acrylic Ink on Paper
11"x7"
2017
Gabrielle Reeves: Foundations 8
Acrylic Ink on Paper
11"x7"
2017
Foundations / Temeller 9
Acrylic Ink on Paper
11"x7"
2017
Gabrielle Reeves: Foundations 10
Acrylic Ink on Paper
12"x7"
2017

A city is a continually evolving collage, a collaborative work composed of various juxtaposed materials and forms that come together to create a new whole from unlikely elements.  The city lives and dies – simultaneously worked on and abandoned by its inhabitants.  It expands and collapses, is broken and rebuilt, and eventually disappears – only to be rediscovered, revealed and even reused years later. 

This series depicts a stratified and surreal portrayal of Istanbul: an organism of a city continually building on top of its old self.