Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Sunum, ss.24, 2021
Fidan Hanım was born in Damal village of Kars province in eastern Turkey. She married when she was just 13 years old. She continues to make decorative dolls, known as “Fidan Dolls or Damal Dolls” in Turkey, for commercial purposes since 1986. The first doll was entirely handmade. The meaning of the word “fidan” in Turkish is “young tree”, and the surname “atmaca” is a bird species known for its good eyesight. She emphasises that every story we encounter is a small social building block that together makes up a whole in the lives of the people in it.Fidan defined herself with the following sentences. “I got married very early, like my name, my eyes have been very good for me to do this job for many years. Years passed, I had children of my own, and when the time came, they left home and started their own families. I was sitting by the stove one winter day, I went back in time, my childhood mother and the women in my village came to mind. I combined the fabrics and old clothes at home, connecting myself and my mother in my imagination. I ended up making a rag doll that looks like myself.