After embracing Islam, Japanese artist Şule Shinku Shirakawa moved from Tokyo to Istanbul, where she studies at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University’s Department of Traditional Turkish Arts and produces original works combining Japanese aesthetics with Seljuk motifs through micro art.

Shirakawa works alongside Murat Uçar, a lecturer in the department, applying Seljuk geometric patterns and traditional Japanese motifs to objects such as fountain pens using the micro art technique.

Her works bring together the clean lines of Japanese design with the Seljuk tradition’s emphasis on infinite geometric order.

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