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Junk Yard Patterns

Colors of Time

October 13, 2012 by A. Cemal Ekin

Colors of Time

This is a special post to wish my friend Ergun, and my wife Jan happy birthday.

A week ago, on a nice fall day, I revisited the junkyard in North Smithfield. It was still filled with dead cars which are piled 4-5 high at some places and gave the appearance as if nothing was moving. Quite the contrary, this time I saw as many, if not more, dead cars but the clusters of cars have changed. Compared to my earlier visit on a hot summer day, it was a lot more comfortable this time and I wandered slowly looking for patterns created by forces of time and nature, colors of time.

One of the finds was an International Harvester truck with colors as if the fall foliage has melted and dripped its colors on this old-timer. The other find was a trunk lid belonging to a much newer car, say 70’s, but time and nature had been equally merciless on it creating beautiful patterns. It was remarkable to see the colors and patterns created mainly by time and nature all around. As I said when I wrote the opening pieces of one of the Great Salt Lake folios, nature, using seemingly chaotic processes seem to create orderly patterns which are compositionally sound. Many a painter would love to be able to create artwork like those created by these forces.

The trunk lid patterns exemplify an interesting color concept called “simultaneous contrast” when opposite colors having similar luminosities are adjacent to each other, like yellow-blue or green-red. On the lid, orange-yellows against the faded blue intensify each color to be perceived more strongly than they actually are. If you stare some of the patterns where the colors and luminosities are just right you will feel your eye having difficulty resting on a single spot and jumping around as if the pattern of colors is vibrating.

Here is the collection featuring the colors of time.

Yard Signage
International Harvester Truck Grill
As if the fall foliage melted and dripped on the old truck
As if the fall foliage melted and dripped on the old truck
Time and nature prove to be good at art
Faded Lettering Ending in \"SION\"
Patterns of Time
The Patterns on Side of the International Harvester
Time and nature prove to be good at art
Movement added to the patterns
Movement added to the patterns
Trunk Lid Art 1
Trunk Lid Art 2
Trunk Lid Art 3
Trunk Lid Art 4
Trunk Lid Art 5
Trunk Lid Art 6
Trunk Lid Art 7
A fine marquee it was, the Studebaker
Old Studebaker bare metal
Old Studebaker window patterns
Old Studebaker grill

Category: Abstract, PhotographyTag: Abstract, Color, Photography

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  1. Binnaz MElin

    October 13, 2012 at 1:33 pm

    Konuşmamızın hemen ardından gördük senin yeni yazını ve resimleri. Daha Ergun bakmadı resimlere. Ben çok beğendim. Yorumu Ergun’a bırakıyorum. Eline sağlık, iyi geceler.

    • A. Cemal Ekin

      October 13, 2012 at 7:35 pm

      Evet, guzel fotograflar cikti dogrusu. Yorum bekleriz.

  2. Jim Turner

    October 13, 2012 at 4:51 pm

    Cemal, those images are awesome. I especially like the rusted rear of the “looks like mid 1940’s auto with the broken rear window. It is as if I am looking into the eye of time.

    • A. Cemal Ekin

      October 13, 2012 at 7:34 pm

      Thanks Jim, it was a good experience. The shattered glass window belonged to the Studebaker I mentioned in the writing. I can visit that place again and again and come up with different photographs.

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