Turkic Art

If you don't have time to read about me, the diagram below shows you my origins.

The red line shows you where my ancestors ended up after leaving the Arctic.

Besides carving I also paint in the traditional Turkic manner and I make arts and crafts such as bracelets, necklaces, rattles, batons, pipes, drums, shields and mandelas.

I also carve woolly mammoth ivory and I'm trying to preserve this valuable Turkic art that dates back to the time when woolly mammoths were around some 20,000 years ago or more.

There is a resemblance between my artwork and the Inuit art as well as a resemblance between some of my artwork and Native Canadian Woodlands Culture artwork. The first question that comes to one's mind is what connection is there between my artwork and Inuit art. The answer to that is very simple. We Turkic people and the Inuit people are from the same continent called the Arctic. The second question that comes to ones mind is why some of my artwork resembles the Native Canadian Woodlands Culture artwork. The answer to that is also very simple. There is Turkic people living in the woodland areas south of the Arctic and their artwork is similar to the Native Canadian Woodlands artwork. By the way the woodlands area where the Turkic people live is called by us the Tayga.

Many Turkic people have lost their art, culture and identity through years of migration and intermixing with people from other cultures. This doesn't mean that the original Turkic art and culture has disappeared. If the Turkic art of carving woolly mammoth ivory managed to last since 20,000 years ago or more, maybe all of the original Turkic art will last another 20,000 years or more.

I'm most grateful to all the kind people in Canada, indigenous and nonindigenous, who helped me and showed support to me with my artwork and venture. I'm especially grateful to the Inuit people of Canada and Alaska who have showed me their limitless kindness. Likewise I am especially grateful to all the Anishinabek (Ojibway) and Iroquoi people of the Woodlands Culture who have helped me  and encouraged me to peruse my venture and who have been and still are showing me their limitless kindness and friendship. I believe that the good relations between the Turkic people and all the Canadian people, indigenous and nonindigenous, will last and will be strong. As the Medicine Wheel teaches, telling us that we are all part of one circle of life, a circle without a beginning and without an end.

Thanks for stopping by to read all this and thank you for sharing. I hope you enjoy my artwork and the artwork of all my friends at www.miigi.com .