The book, which focuses on more than 80 drawings from Cihat Burak's Mengü Ertel Collection, one of the most important figures in figurative painting in Turkey, is titled "From the Drawer of a Friend," referring to the friendship of two friends. It opens the doors to the worlds of these two friends from the 1960s, where literature speaks with painting, posters with design, and architecture with theater, up to the early 1990s.
Written by Oğuz Erten, the book possesses the unique feature of being able to read Cihat Burak's stories. Sometimes it portrays the longing for a mother, sometimes the anxiety of losing Istanbul, sometimes the love for animals, and sometimes the love for books as if diving into a novel, in other words, all the elements that make Cihat Burak who he is are described by his own sentences. Mengü Ertel's collection visualizes this imaginative world. The book allows us to watch Cihat Burak, who, during his lifetime, watched us from the outside as one of us, and narrated it through his stories and paintings, by placing him in the seat of the observer, enabling us to enjoy watching him in all his aspects.