January 2025 – TURKIYEMUZIK

How to Get Rid of a Mildew Smell in the Bathroom for Good

Mold and mildew thrive in damp, dark environments. Bathrooms, especially those that lack proper ventilation, are some of the most humid spaces in the house, offering prime growing conditions for mold or mildew to develop.

While it’s common to find mildew spots on the bathroom ceiling, wet towels thrown in a pile on the floor are just as likely to be the source of a bad smell. If your bathroom smells damp and musty 24/7, you need to eliminate the source of the problem to get rid of the odor. Here’s how.

Locate the Source of the Problem

Mildew can appear in white, gray, or green spots. It’s usually flat in its early stages but can have a fluffier appearance as it ages.

Common places to find mildew in the bathroom include on the bathroom ceiling or walls near the shower, on the caulk lines in the shower or bathtub, and on any damp rugs or towels.

Kill the Mildew

Once you’ve found the mildew, you need to kill it so that it doesn’t continue to spread. You can remove mildew from the ceiling, walls, caulk lines, and bathtub or shower surround with a mixture of one part bleach to three parts water. Spray the solution on the mildew and let it sit for ten minutes. Then, use a soft-bristled scrub brush to scrub the mildew from the area. Finally, go back over the treated spots with a wet towel to rinse.

Whether or not you’ll be able to rid your towels, bath mats, and shower curtains of their mildew smell depends on the severity. We recommend you wash everything using your washing machine’s hottest cycle and regular detergent. (You can even wash your shower curtain liner in the washing machine—just don’t put it in the dryer.)

If regular detergent doesn’t rid your items of the mildew, rewash them, this time adding 1 cup of white distilled vinegar to the washing machine instead of your regular detergent.

Replace or Clean Your Bathroom’s Vent Fan

A lack of ventilation is the number one reason that bathrooms develop mold and mildew. When you take a hot shower, the steam needs somewhere to escape, or else it will coat your bathroom ceiling, creating a moist environment for fungi and leading to the possible rot of your drywall ceilings.

If you don’t have a bathroom vent fan or yours doesn’t work, install one as soon as possible. If you currently have a bathroom vent fan but are still dealing with mildew problems, ensure that the fan is appropriately exhausting the excess moisture. First, check if the fan’s vents are clogged with dust. If so, clean your exhaust fan. If the fan isn’t dirty, it’s likely not big or powerful enough for the space.

Deep Clean the Bathroom

As a final step, deep clean your bathroom. Launder any soft materials that you haven’t already washed. Then, wash the ceilings and walls, wipe down the counters and mirrors, clean the toilets, scrub the shower or tub, and sweep and mop.

Deep clean your bathroom every couple of weeks to keep it in tip-top shape.

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In London, an Enormous Exhibition of 500+ Works Roots Out the Creative Seeds of Flowers

In nature, flowers serve as an essential component of the reproduction process. But for humans, scented blooms are ripe with myriad meanings and symbolism that transcend their biological functions.

During Victorian times, offering a bouquet to someone with your right hand indicated a non-verbal “yes,” while a yellow carnation would reject an admirer. Similarly in art history, wilting flowers rendered as a momento mori remind us of death’s inevitability, and for van Gogh, sunflowers were the perfect stand-in for gratitude.

a photo of a person laying in a wheelbarrow covered by flowers — Aimée Hoving, “Compost” (2019). Image © Aimee Hoving, flowers by Brigitte Gentis van Dam Merrett

A massive exhibition opening next month at Saatchi Gallery cultivates a vast repertoire of works that explores how blooms have become an omnipresent entity in human life and creativity. Flowers: Flora in Contemporary Art and Culture brings together more than 500 photographs, installations, sculptures, archival pieces, and other objects to create a rich landscape spanning millennia.

Anchoring the exhibition is an expansive and immersive work of 100,000-plus dried flowers by Rebecca Louise Law. Smaller pieces include Xuebing Du’s ethereal photos of flowers in natural light, VOYDER’s streaky steam-laden compositions, and lush, vibrant gardens by Faye Bridgewater.

Opening in time to usher in spring in London, Flowers runs from February 12 to May 5.

a bouquet sits behind a foggy screen with clean streaks revealing the image — VOYDER, “In Love with the Idea of You” (2024). Image courtesy of the artist

a black and white collage of a woman with two faces spliced together — Miriam Tolke, “Flowers of Yesterday.” Image courtesy of the artist

a still life painting of a bouquet with delicate streaks of paint across the flowers — Sandra Kantanen, “Still Life (Flowers I).” Image courtesy the artist and Purdy Hicks Gallery

a dreamy image of a flower with black specks in the center — Xuebing Du, “Mother of Pearl” (2018). Image courtesy of the artist

a philodendron with pink and green coloring stands next to another flower that juts from a wall and cracks down in a perfect right angle — Carmen Mitrotta, “Geometric Leaves.” Image courtesy the artist

a lush painting of flowers in pinks, purples, reds, and oranges — Faye Bridgwater, “En Masse” (2025). Image courtesy of the artist

flowers drip in long vibrant streaks — Ann von Freyburg, “Floral Arrangement 1 (After Jan van Huysum, Still Life).” Image courtesy of the artist

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The Winners of This Annual Competition Show Nature Is Ready for Its Close-Up

A striking silhouette of two fighting stag beetles takes the top prize in the 6th annual Close-Up Photographer of the Year contest (previously), capping a group of category winners and finalists that showcase an array of natural phenomena in astonishing detail.

A jury of 25 experts, comprising scientists, editors, naturalists, journalists, and photographers, narrowed down 100 images from more than 11,000 entries. Photographers in 61 countries submitted photos of a wide range of animals and environments, capturing dramatic behaviors and fascinating habitats.

1st place in the Butterflies & Dragonflies category: Yong Miao, “Damselfly by the Waterfall.” A damselfly (Archineura incarnata) rests on a rock amidst a flowing waterfall in Tianmushan Nature Reserve, Zhejiang Province, China

Among many favorites, Yong Miao’s beautiful shot of a damselfly perched on a stone near a waterfall won the Insects category, Barry Webb’s capture of an ear-pick fungus topped the Fungi & Slime Moulds category, and Gabriel Jensen’s portrait of a fish in the toothy mouth of a predator took the top spot in the Underwater category.

The competition highlights not only incredible images but also the fascinating science and stories behind them. “Summer brings calm seas to South Florida where a dedicated community of shore diving photographers head out nearly every day to survey the world’s third largest coral reef for interesting wildlife,” Jensen says.

Her friends spotted a lizard fish (Synodus foetens) grappling with a large doctorfish. She adds, “After a few minutes of struggle, the doctorfish managed to escape. This image now sits on my desk at work, serving as a reminder that even on tough days, “Everything’s going to be A-OK.”

CUPOTY co-founder Tracy Calder says, “Close-up photography is a celebration of curiosity,” also sharing that the winning entries are “a true testament to the artistry of everyone involved, as well as an invitation to look, marvel at, and honour the world around us.” See all the top photos in the competition’s online gallery.

Winner of Underwater category: Gabriel Jensen, “Everything’s A-OK.” A doctorfish struggles in the jaws of a lizardfish, Kona, Hawaii

1st place in Fungi & Slime Moulds category: Barry Webb, “Ear-Pick Fungus” (2023). A 15mm tall ear-pick fungus growing on a pine cone, New Forest, U.K.

1st place in Insects category and overall winner of CUPOTY 6: Svetlana Ivanenko, “Clash of the Titans.” Two stag beetles (Lucanus cervus) battle for dominance in the Voronezh region of Russia

2nd place in Underwater category: Jenny Stock, “Search for the Dragon” (2020). A leafy seadragon (Phycodurus eques) swims with a school of rough bullseye fish (Pempheris klunzingeri), Rapid Bay, South Australia

2nd place in Young category: Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas, “Afternoon Snack” (2024). A robber fly (Asilidae sp.) feeds on a flesh fly (Sarcophagidae sp.), Brandenburg, Germany

A close-up photo of a mushroom covered in sand — 3rd place in Fungi & Slime Moulds category: Jamie Spensley, “Sandy Mushroom” (2024). A mushroom covered in sand on Holywell Bay Beach, Cornwall

2nd place in Invertebrate Portrait category: José Manuel Lois Rial, “Stauropus Fagi” (2023). A lobster moth caterpillar (Stauropus fagi) on a tree branch in the photographer’s garden, Spain

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Michelle Robinson’s Passementerie Weavings Demonstrate Elaborate Detail and Design

Continuing her practice rooted in the extensive art of passementerie, Michelle Robinson weaves vibrant threads into geometric wall hangings that curve, puff, and meander.

Over the last two years, the Sydney-based artist has been learning how to spin fiber. “I didn’t expect the pure meditative state spinning allows, which is in stark contrast to the complex pre-planning that is involved for my weaving practice, especially passementerie,” she explains. “I am a chronic over-thinker and the countless options afforded in fiber work can often lead to a writer-block of sorts.”

two wall hangings comprised of vibrant textured fibers woven in the style of passementerie while incorporating geometric, curving forms

Though Robinson initially had goals to scale up her work, she’s instead found more growth in creating an ongoing series of small-scale iterations, experimenting with different fibers, yarn denier, and and color palettes.

Robinson has been also been working on incorporating her vast personal collection of of woven textile cloths, embellishments, and wallpaper, which she still keeps from her previous endeavors in soft furnishings.

Find more on the artist’s Instagram.

vibrant textured fibers woven in the style of passementerie while incorporating geometric, curving forms

detail of vibrant textured fibers woven in the style of passementerie while incorporating geometric, curving forms

a wall tapestry woven from vibrant fibers, incorporating geometric forms

detail of a wall tapestry woven from vibrant fibers, incorporating geometric forms

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Michelle Robinson’s Passementerie Weavings Demonstrate Elaborate Detail and Design

Continuing her practice rooted in the extensive art of passementerie, Michelle Robinson weaves vibrant threads into geometric wall hangings that curve, puff, and meander.

Find more on the artist’s Instagram.

A Provocative Photography Exhibition Invites You to Experience ‘Chromotherapia’

In the world of photography, the color image has long held an inferior reputation to black-and-white, which connoisseurs historically deemed to be more dignified. Today, vibrant images are embraced in a wide range of fields, from fine art and fashion to advertising and journalism.

Championing the potential of the medium, artist Maurizio Cattelan and French Academy in Rome—Villa Medici director Sam Stourdzé curated Chromotherapia: The Feel-Good Color Photography.

a photograph of a pair of hands folding a very large doughnut — Martin Parr, “Common Sense.” Image © Magnum Photos

Color therapy, though deemed a pseudoscience, has its roots in color theory, which focuses on interactions between hues and how they affect our moods and emotions.

Cattelan and Stourdzé emphasize ebullient hyperreality, humor, and the absurd through works like Juno Calypso’s “Chicken Dogs,” in which an anonymous figure lies face-down next to a can of hot dogs, or Walter Candoha’s expressive pets. And in “Toiletpaper,” by Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, who co-founded a magazine of the same name in 2010, a man sits on a tan couch, wearing a matching suit, covered in spaghetti.

In total, twenty artists explore a range of approaches in the exhibition, from portraits of people and animals to food and uncanny tableaux. “Many have freed themselves from the documentary function of the photographic medium to explore the common roots of the image and the imaginary, flirting with pop art, surrealism, bling, kitsch, and the baroque,” says a statement.

Chromotherapia opens February 28 and continues through June 9 in Rome, and an accompanying catalogue published by Damiani is slated for release in March in the U.K. and May in the U.S. Pre-order your copy in the Colossal Shop.

cover of the book 'Chromotherapia' with a photograph of a white kitten sitting on a stack of three silk pillows — Cover of ‘Chromotherapia’ (2025). Featured image by Walter Chandoha, “New Jersey” (1962). Image ©️ Walter Chandoha Archive

a photograph of a woman, face down on a tile floor, with her hair over her face and an open can of hot dogs next to her — Juno Calypso, “Chicken Dogs” (2015), archival pigment print. Image © Courtesy the artist and TJ Boulting

a photograph by William Wegman of a weimaraner wearing a red puff jacket and a knitted hat — William Wegman, “Ski Patrol” (2017). Image courtesy of Galerie George-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois

a portrait of four cats on a blue background, on the back cover of a book with a pink cover — The back cover of Damiani’s catalogue for the exhibition ‘Chromotherapia: The Feel-Good Color Photography,’ featuring a photo by Walter Chandoha

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A Provocative Photography Exhibition Invites You to Experience ‘Chromotherapia’

Championing the potential of the medium, artist Maurizio Cattelan and French Academy in Rome—Villa Medici director Sam Stourdzé curated Chromotherapia: The Feel-Good Color Photography.

Color therapy, though deemed a pseudoscience, has its roots in color theory, which focuses on interactions between hues and how they affect our moods and emotions.

Deniz Kurdak Crafts Fragility and Resilience in Embroidered Depictions of Porcelain

“What draws me to the motif of ceramics is the deep sense of belonging they evoke in me,” says Deniz Kurdak. The London-based artist is fascinated by blue-and-white porcelain—a style that originated in China as early as the 7th century and was broadly imitated and collected around the globe—and the way certain pieces inspire familiarity. She adds, “They have even found their way into my grandmother’s home.”

Themes of identity, belonging, and memory play central roles in Kurdak’s work, as she draws on personal histories and bases her compositions on real objects that remind her of pieces her grandmother owned.

a colorful embroidery of broken plate pieces — “Fragments,” 30 x 40 centimeters

“Growing up with an abusive father, I found sanctuary in my grandparents’ home—a safe, predictable, and nurturing space where I felt accepted,” the artist tells Colossal. “Along with my admiration for blue-and-white porcelain, my passion for textiles and embroidery was passed down to me by my grandmother.”

Bringing conceptual elements to needlework, a craft traditionally dismissed in art circles as “women’s work,” she emphasizes expression and narrative. “I like to reimagine the acts of cutting, stitching, and embroidering as forms of emotional repair,” she says, “allowing me to reconstruct and navigate the complexities of my personal history.”

Long associated with its calming and meditative nature, “embroidery has become both a medium and a means of reflection in my artistic process,” Kurdak says. Seemingly at odds with making intimate and methodical stitches, her images suggest the violence of breakage, suddenness, and the relationship between ornament and utility.

Kurdak is intrigued by dualities—fragility and resilience, belonging and displacement—which mirror the tensions and contradictions of the human condition. Contrasting brittle yet durable porcelain with pliable yet resistant fabric and thread, she highlights polarities in the act of merging the ideas together.

an embroidery of a red-and-white porcelain plate broken into pieces — “Not Even Close,” 48 x 48 centimeters

Blue-and-white porcelain predominantly inspires Kurdak’s compositions, but she also renders red, green, or multi-colored pieces in textiles, too. She uses a wide range of needlework and fabric techniques, including appliqué, lacework, and embroidery. Vases appear to melt into streams, lacy decorations hover above the surface, and motifs rearrange into puzzle-like grids or dynamic swirls.

If you’re in London, “Willow” is currently on view at the Young Masters Art Prize Finalists Exhibition through April 8. Kurdak’s work will be included in Collect Art Fair opening in late February at Somerset House, followed by Affordable Art Fair in March in New York. Learn more on her website, and followed updates on Instagram.

an embroidery of blue-and-white porcelain pieces arranged like puzzle pieces — “Willow,” 60 x 60 centimeters

an embroidery of a blue-and-white porcelain jar with the decoration in long blue streams in the lower half — “Jar Descending,” 120 x 90 centimeters

a lacework art piece of a blue-and-white porcelain motif on a white background — “Anguish in Blue,” 27 x 47 centimeters

a detail of a lacework art piece of a blue-and-white porcelain motif on a white background — Detail “Anguish in Blue”

an embroidery of a green-and-white porcelain plate broken into pieces — “Disjointed,” 49 x 49 centimeters

an embroidery of a blue-and-white porcelain plate swirling on one side — “Dissolving Willow,” 55 x 55 centimeters

an embroidery of blue-and-white porcelain jar pieces arranged like puzzle pieces — “Mother Jar,” 80 x 80 centimeters

a detail of a textile artwork of blue-and-white porcelain plate pieces appliqued on a green background — Detail of “Pieces on Green”

an embroidery of a blue-and-white porcelain plate broken into pieces — “This Beyond,” 49 x 49 centimeters

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Deniz Kurdak Crafts Fragility and Resilience in Embroidered Depictions of Porcelain

From Dazzling Lights to Bursting Geysers, Jennifer Esseiva Captures Iceland’s Diverse Scenery

Nicknamed “The Land of Fire and Ice,” Iceland is home to an exceptionally diverse array of landscapes teeming with topographical gems and majestic skies. For these reasons, it’s no surprise the destination is considered a haven for photographers all over the world. After dreaming of visiting the scenic country for years, 2024 finally presented an opportunity for Swiss photographer Jennifer Esseiva (previously).

Esseiva devoted a 10-day trip across southern Iceland entirely to the region’s vast surroundings, from the black sand beaches, towering glaciers, and impressive waterfalls to the moss-covered formations and striking displays of the Northern Lights.

an aerial photo of a broken wooden boat floating in dark waters

“Where many prefer to travel in sunshine, I’m more interested in clouds and rain,” she says. “I’ve always found that photographing landscapes in different weather conditions gives them another dimension, a unique grandeur.”

The photographer is planning a forthcoming trip in March, this time to Finnish Lapland. Keep an eye on her Instagram for more, and check out her website for past projects and prints for purchase.