"I expressed my memories of the waterside residences, the most authentic product of what the wistful, nostalgic writer Abdülhak Şinasi Hisar called the 'Bosphorus Civilization'—the boathouse, the rowboats, the high ceilings, the giant ships passing as if through the living room and fishing from the shore, the fried horse mackerel on the dinner table—with memories of my beloved 16th- and 17th-century Dutch dead dopa paintings."