Since we launched our website, quite some people have been asking us about the meaning of Kaplum. It comes from the Turkish word for turtle, kaplumbağa. Alper grew up in Turkey. When he was twenty-six he left Turkey to study art in Amsterdam. For two years we were in the same class, even working in adjoining studios, but beside a few words we never actually talked to each other. Three years after graduating we met again at an exhibition where some of my drawings were displaye