Artist first. Reader by curiosity. Turning the accidental marks left in a coffee cup into a visual conversation.
An artist's eye applied to the ancient visual ritual of Turkish coffee cup reading.
Nelly is an award-winning designer, creative director and performance artist whose professional life has centered on visual storytelling. Her work spans television branding, motion graphics, live sports presentation and independent art practice.
That visual instinct is also what makes Turkish coffee reading interesting to her. A finished cup leaves behind an accidental composition of lines, shapes, figures, negative space and movement. Nelly approaches those marks the way an artist approaches an image: by looking, associating, questioning and telling a story.
I'm not an industry artist. I'm an artist in the industry.
A Turkish coffee cup becomes a temporary drawing: shapes, figures, pathways and stories waiting to be noticed.
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