 Karamustafa explores this in an artwork titled "The Stage" (1998) where she features a photo taken at the courtroom.Her time in prison is documented in the 1972 series "Prison Paintings", displayed for the first time in her 2013 solo exhibition "A Promised Exhibition" at SALT, Istanbul.In talking about the series, Karamustafa explained “I made them in order to remember, in order to be able to keep [what happened] in mind.