Mustafa Kemal Yurttas is an artist from Istanbul, Turkey. They work with multiple mediums including video, photography, writing, drawing, 3D modeling, installation, spatial intervention, and performance. Mustafa works through a series of fictional personas and avatars that produce art separately and together in different mediums and share their work on social media. Their latest performance was a collaboration with PerformIstanbul called “Dark organic soil formed by the decay of plants over a very long time”. During the performance, audience members wore different colored masks and explored how the COVID-19 pandemic played with our sense of smell and our bodies.