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Ayşegül Yeşilnil

"1001 SACRED NIGHT ANIMALS" By AYŞEGÜL YEŞİLNİL

You are watching Painter and Jazz Singer Ayşegül Yeşilnil's " 1001 Sacred Night Animals" paintings.
Also you are listening her song " Spring Prayer" who performed by herself .
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"1001 SACRED NIGHT ANIMALS"

Through the history of the civilization, primitive communities, nations and tribes, basically “humankind” gave meanings to animals.

Belief is very important for people. The beliefs have been decorated with folk tales, legends and mythology caused them to grow and enrich in time. Many communities’ beliefs existed with sacred animals. These sacred animals were believed to bring luck, fortune and also believed that they were protective and they possessed supernatural powers. They were symbols of many things like they were universal and their descriptions matched very well to the supernatural world. These descriptions were sometimes half man and half animal, sometimes a mixture of different animals and sometimes the animal itself.

They are the protectors that are immortal in tales, legends and in our dreams that we know and believe. Through the imagery time voyage, they have become jewelry, sculpture and many more figures like that where they entered into our homes, temples, places and our dreams. They are in our childhoods once we had and forgotten, in our afternoon sleeps that we were forced upon us, and in our most sweet sleeps at night. Anything, everything and being anywhere is possible with them such as, if we want we can go to the mountains to see what is behind a mountain; or we can go to the 7 depths of the ground or to the oceans. The animals can take us there and the only thing that we have to do is just simply want to go. Unlike us, they never ask for anything or ask us where we are going. They never ask your credit card number, your real estate list if you have one or your mother’s maiden name to be in your dreams because to ask these kinds of questions about such notions for them is a nightmare and shameful thing to do. They are unconditional, mystical, dignified, noble, and they convey hope and happiness. They are SACRED.

For a long time at night, I had my little inspiration fairies come at my workshop window continuously to deliver the stories of the animals while the city falls into deep sleep. Even though they were getting tired they still brought the stories to me with happiness and joy night after night. My fairies’ wings symbolized “God”, poverty, health, virtue, luck, and goodness that can bring tears to a heart and make that cold heart beat again. They are my surreal and extraordinary confidants. They sometimes brought stories from the heaven like the never ending dreams of Sehrazat in the 1001 night tales. Because of them my 1001 Sacred Night Animals will live and exist forever.

Now, they are here glided from the clouds to earth with their magnificence, beauty, glitter, innocence, virtue, fortune, charm, luck and sacredness all together for a short while just for your eyes to see.


Visionary AYSEGUL YESILNIL

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Ayşegül Yeşilnil Comment by Ayşegül Yeşilnil on January 8, 2009 at 7:32pm
"Les Animaux Sacrés de 1001 Nuits"

Tout au long de l’histoire, les civilisations, les sociétés primitives, les nations, les tribus ou en un seul mot les ‘personnes’ ont attribué de nombreux sens aux animaux.
Les croyences ont une importance considérable pour les personnes. Et ces croyances s’illustrent, se multiplient et s’enrichissent avec des fables, des légendes et la Mythologie...Pour la plus grande partie des communautés, ils existaient des animaux considérés comme sacrés. Des animaux supposés apporter chance et fortune, apporter abondance, être protecteur ayant des pouvoirs surnaturels…Ils représentent le symbole de plusieurs choses. ..Ils sont universels.. Quant à leur description, elles s’ajustent bien au monde surréaliste … Nous pouvons les rencontrer parfois sous forme de demi-homme demi-animal ou bien comme étant un mélange de plusieurs animaux ou tout simplement lui-même…
Ils s’agit aussi de nos gardiens immortels que nous faisons vivre dans les fables et légendes et qui sont les estimés de nos rêves..Ils sont devenus les ornements, les statues et ont pris plusieurs formes au cours du voyage rêvasseur à travers le temps...Ils sont entrés dans les maisons, les temples, les palaces ainsi que les rêves…
Ils sont présents dans notre enfance que nous avons oublié, dans nos sommeils d’après-midi où on nous forcaient à dormir et nos meilleurs sommeils de nuit… Tout et n’importe-où est possible avec eux..si l’on veut ce sont eux qui nos emmènent au-delà d’une montagne imaginaire ou bien dans le fond du sous-sol, ou bien encore dans un voyage au travers de l’océan..Il suffit de vouloir… Alors qu’eux ne demandent rien du tout et ne posent aucune question..au point qu’ ils ne vous demandent pas le numéro de votre carte de crédit, ou bien une liste de vos immobiliers ou encore le nom de jeune fille de votre mère pour exister dans vos rêves… parce que pour eux c’est honteux…vilain et incivil ou quelquechose comme ça.
Ils sont catégoriques, mystiques…solennels...nobles…porteurs d’espoir et de bonheur, ils sont "Divins"..

Depuis bien longtemps, lorsque la ville entrait dans un profond sommeil, les petites muses qui s’attroupaient devant la fenêtre de mon atelier m’apportaient constamment leurs rêves pendant les nuits…même si des fois elles se fatiguent elles continuent tout de même à apporter en toute gaieté..tout au long des nuits…
Mes amis surréalistes et extraordinaires qui peuvent redonner vie avec leurs larmes à ceux qui ont un cœur de pierre, qui symbolisent avec leurs ailes ‘Le Dieu’, le pouvoir, la guérison, la virtue, la chance et bien d’autres de bonté, qui apportent de temps en temps des nouvelles du Paradis…comme les rêves infinis de Shéhérazade des contes de Mille et Une Nuits…Mes ‘animaux sacrés de 1001 Nuits’ qui existeront éternellement..

Et maintenant les voilà,
Ils descendent sur terre en se filtrant des nuages avec toute leur magnificence, beautés, éclat, innocence, sagesse, abondance, chance et divinité,,,,, pour un certain temps afin de rejoindre vos yeux …

AYSEGUL YESILNIL
Ayşegül Yeşilnil Comment by Ayşegül Yeşilnil on December 5, 2008 at 9:50pm
“ KUTSAL 1001 GECE HAYVANLARI "

Tarih boyunca medeniyetler, ilkel topluluklar, uluslar, kavimler, sonuçta”insanlar” birçok anlam yüklemiştir hayvanlara.
İnanışların insanlar için önemi büyüktür.. Ve inanışlar masal ve efsanelerle , Mitologya ile süslenir, çoğalır, zenginleşir..İnsan topluluklarının çoğunda kutsal sayılan hayvanlar varolmuştur. Şans getirdiğine, uğur getirdiğine, bereket getirdiğine, koruyucu olduğuna, doğa üstü güçleri olduğuna inanılan hayvanlar…Birçok şeyin sembolüdürler..Evrenseldirler.. Ve onların tasvirleri ise gerçeküstü dünyaya çok yakışmıştır… Kimi zaman yarı insan yarı hayvan olarak karşımıza çıkar, kimi zamansa bir çok hayvanın karışımı,yada sadece kendisi…
Onlar ki masallarda , efsanelerde yaşayan , ölümsüz , düşlerimizin baştacı ve varolduğuna inandığım koruyucularımızdır..Düşsel zaman yolculuğunda takı olmuşlardır, heykel olmuşlardır ve daha bir çok şekle girmişlerdir...Evlere, mabetlere, saraylara ,düşlere girmişlerdir…
Onlar unuttuğumuz çocukluğumuzda ,zorla uyutulduğumuz öğle sonrası ve en tatlı gece uykularımızdadır…onlarla herşey ve her yer mümkündür..istersek Kaf dağının ardına,istersek yerin yedi kat dibine ,istersek okyanuslarda seyahate bizi onlar götürür..sadece istemek yeterlidir…onlarsa hiçbir şey istemezler ve sormazlar ..öyle ki düşlerinizde varolmak için kredi kartı numaranızı,eğer varsa gayrimenkul listesini yada annenizin kızlık soyadını bile sormazlar…çünkü bu onlar için çok ayıptır…öcülüktür ve cıssss gibi bir şeylerdir.
Onlar koşulsuzdurlar, mistiktirler…vakurdurlar..asildirler…umut ve sevinç taşıyıcıdırlar, “Kutsal”dırlar..

Uzun zamandır geceleri ,atölyemin camına üşüşen minicik ilham periciklerim, bana şehir en derin uykusuna girdiğinde , durmaksızın onların hayallerini taşıdılar…bazen yorulsalar bile hala sevinç içinde taşımaya devam ediyorlar..geceler boyu…
Gözyaşlarıyla taş olan kalpleri canlandırabilen, kanatlarıyla “Tanrı” yı , gücü, şifayı, erdemi, şansı ve bir çok iyiliği simgeleyen,kimi zaman cennetten haberler taşıyabilen, gerçeküstü , olağanüstü dostlarım …Binbir gece masalındaki Şehrazatın bitmeyen hayalleri gibi… Sonsuza dek varolacak “Kutsal 1001 Gece Hayvanlarım” benim..

İşte şimdi onlar,
tüm ihtişamlarıyla, güzellikleriyle, pırıltılarıyla, masumiyetleriyle,bilgelikleriyle, bereketleriyle, uğurlarıyla, şanslarıyla, kutsallıklarıyla beraber,,,,, bir süre için ,ve sizlerin gözlerine kavuşmak için,bulutların üzerinden süzülerek yeryüzüne iniyorlar…


HAYAL-İ AYŞEGÜL YEŞİLNİL




nilgun Comment by nilgun on September 11, 2008 at 3:27pm
çok güzeldi
mike kelly Comment by mike kelly on September 11, 2008 at 10:58am
Hello precious person, beautiful you are and lovely you sound. Proud you should be and glad I am. Mike.
Boguslaw Ryczko Comment by Boguslaw Ryczko on September 11, 2008 at 12:56am
Hola, AYŞEGÜL. Tienes aqui una interesante coleccion de seres sobrenaturales.
Saludos.



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