ÇAÇİÇAKADUZ is Istanbul, Turkey-based printmaker and papermaker sisters, Yasemin Özcan (Çaçi) and Ezgi Özcan (Çakaduz). Çaçi completed her education at Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Textiles, and Çakaduz completed her education in the Department of Painting. Their practice is named after their nicknames (Çaçi and Çakaduz) that have been used in their family since they were little.
After graduating from their schools, the sisters continued their studies in various art fields. Their mother is a ceramic artist, and they worked together in her atelier for many years. They have also worked in the fields of illustration and textiles, producing t-shirts with their own illustrations on them.
Çaçi and Çakaduz took a break from their art practice for 8 years after they started working in a small boutique hotel and moved to Ayvalik, a touristic seaside town. However, at the beginning of the pandemic, they began producing recycled handmade papers at home. They then started producing linocut prints on the papers they produced and immediately became hooked on the method. Now that their hotel work is over, the pair continue their work in Istanbul in the winter and in Ayvalık in the summer.
Their working process begins with sketches on paper that they then alter on make corrections ton Procreate in order to make them suitable for linocut printing. They then transfer the drawing they have prepared to the linoleum layer with carbon paper, and then begin the carving process. Their go to equipment includes Pfeil’s carving tools and Cranfield Caligo Safe Wash series as paint. Ultramarine and Prussian Blue colours are the duo’s most preferred ones.
Inspiration for their works comes from nature, animals, and the beautiful colour harmony that surrounds them, and covers subjects including birds, astrology, the celestial, and tarot cards. They comment; “We aim to give good and positive feelings to those around us with the works we produce. It makes us very happy that our pictures hang in homes and countries we don’t even know about and that they leave a good energy in the environment.”
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