Kept Light» Exhibit

Great Salt Lake Folio – 5

A. Cemal Ekin — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:13:20 +0000

This is the final installment of the series on the Great Salt Lake. Vegetation around and in the Great Salt Lake does not impress the viewer with lush foliage or colorful flowers. However, the halophiles, those that require high salinity create interesting patterns against the colors of the lake. Mostly marshes around the periphery and algae in the water, the greenish clumps against the colorful water present painting-like views. This folio is available in the store for purchase.

Great Salt Lake – Folio 5 | The Halophiles Collection

Great Salt Lake – Folio 7

A. Cemal Ekin — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:42:57 +0000

I am getting close to finishing this project. This folio is about the limits of everything. Water meets land or air with a boundary, colors change creating another boundary, various shapes are formed or erased by virtue of their boundaries being there or becoming diffuse. The ecosystem of the Great Salt Lake is so diverse with different minerals in water, living organisms, land formation, evaporation, all working to create many boundaries that are clearly visible from the air. This collection is available in the store as well.

Great Salt Lake – Folio 7 | The Borders & Boundaries Collection

Great Salt Lake – Folio 2

A. Cemal Ekin — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 03:01:21 +0000

The Found Patterns Folio is the new addition to the Great Salt Lake series. With eight photographs, it presents the patterns created by nature and by human touch. The nature’s patterns with a palette of minerals and evaporation challenge the canvas of most painters both in structure and artistry. Human touch, on the other hand, creates direct patterns which are easy to identify or through interference with nature which are much harder to discern. Folio 3 | The Found Patterns Collection contains 8 photographs and is available in the store for the introductory price of $75.

Great Salt Lake – Folio 2 | The Found Patterns Collection

Great Salt Lake – Folio 3

A. Cemal Ekin — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:23:10 +0000

Looking down to the Great Salt Lake is a surreal experience, not only do the colors change unexpectedly but also the surface-depth-bottom relations present visual riddles. There I was in the helicopter, looking down at a reddish-orange, or orangeish-red water not being able to figure out what lied on the surface and where the bottom was. An unexpected glow seemed to come from beneath the surface delineating shapes, lines; of what I could not tell.

A new addition to the Great Salt Lake collection is the Folio 3 | The Glow Collection which includes 5 photographs. The folio is available in the store for purchase.

Great Salt Lake – Folio 3 | The Glow Collection

Great Salt Lake – Folio 6

A. Cemal Ekin — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 19:04:01 +0000

A new addition to the Great Salt Lake folio series is the Folio 6 | The Spiral Jetty Collection. The Spiral Jetty is one of the best known earth work or land art by Robert Smithson. He conceived the idea and constructed the land art using basalt rocks available on site. Robert Smithson finished the jetty a few years before a fatal plane accident while scouting another site for one of his projects. He was 35 years old. From the air, the jetty looks like a strand of the shore line wound up tight into a spring. The folio is available in the store for purchase.

Great Salt Lake – Folio 6 | The Spiral Jetty Collection