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"These are the ones I was looking for," Kale
says excitedly, as he scoops up a handful of pumpkin seeds.
The 57-year-old's morning routine may not stand out at first
glance, but his motive does. At home, once Kale pours his
freshly bought pumpkin seeds on his table, the adventure begins.
A micro-artist renowned as Turkey's Microangelo, a pun on
Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo, Kale paints scenes from
Istanbul on miniature objects or even food particles.
For him, no object is too small - from fig seeds to bottle caps,
lentils to fishbone, Kale finds any object or food big enough to
paint a scene from his hometown of Istanbul.
"Of course the only hindrance here is that you can't hang it on
your wall and (look at it) while you sip your coffee. You have
to submerge in it," Kale said.
Celebrating his 22nd year as a micro-artist, Kale said he has so
far painted on 350 different objects, but that one of the
biggest challenges of using food as a canvas is that his
micropieces may not always last for long.
Nowadays, Kale said he was working on opening the world's first
micro objects museum to exhibit his tiny oeuvre.
"I fight to make them last forever ... I try to take them to the
highest level and I want to display them in the world's first
and only museum of micro-objects that I want to open."
(Additional reporting by Bulent Usta; writing by Yesim Dikmen;
editing by Tuvan Gumrukcu/Mark Heinrich)
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