A Page from the #DrawingPapers Archive This page from Drawing Papers 78 features “Phallisme 2” created with handmade pigments on paper by Yüksel Arslan in the 1958. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The 2008 exhibition “Yüksel Arslan: Visual Interpretations” presented a 50 year survey of Arslan’s work, providing an intimate glimpse into his thinking, interests, and obsessions. For many decades, Arslan has been mining the depths of the unconscious mind, bringing together Western and Eastern aesthetics and philosophy in finely wrought works that he calls “Artures”. Serial in format, the hundreds of drawings he has produced deal with subjects as varied as schizophrenia and the eroticism of de Sade, Bataille, and Artaud, as well as visual interpretations of artists, poets, writers, scientists, musicians, and philosophers that have influenced his thinking. Arslan’s working process includes the use of self-made and antique tools and the production of his own colors using ancient methods of comb...