Kate Temple

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  • about
    •         - artist statement
    •         - biography
    •         - CV
    •         - Links
  • portfolio
    •         - installations
      •                 - You/Me San Antonio
      •                 - cicek hali/flower carpet
      •                 - Seni Beni/You Me, 2012
      •                 - You/Me Puglia
      •                 - Ragni metaforici
      •                 - Remedy for Winter Listlessness
      •                 - The Year series
      •                 - The Vanishing Point
      •                 - Elemental Correspondence
    •         - painting
      •                 - Tendrel 2015
      •                 - Turkey 2013
      •                 - India 2010
    •         - books and prints
    •         - archive
      •                 - archive 2006-2008
      •                 - reviews
  • shop
  • workshops
    •         - Origins Of Color
    •         - Substance Into Color
  • blog
  • contact

Work on Paper from Turkey 2013

“I arrived in the village during the harvest of the apricots. All the fruit is arranged carefully on the rooftops on donkey feedbags. The sun is so hot and dry that the fruit is dried and preserved quickly. Some women are making pestil, a paste of apricots which is spread out thin on sheets of paper and hung out to dry on lines strung up between buildings. The colors are luminous, like stained glass, very transparent orange. It is Ramadan and the entire village is fasting from sunrise to sunset. The village is very quiet except for the braying of the donkeys and the call to prayer from the minarets.”

These works were created during and after an artist residency in the area of Cappodocia, Central Anatolia Turkey at the Babayan Culture House. Along with several site-specific pieces (see Installations) time was spent wandering through the villages creating small paintings of light, color and space.

10% of the sale of these works goes to benefit a woman’s cooperative initative in the town of Ibrahimpasa, Turkey.

02_03_01mountaindawn
02_03_02ruins
02_03_03ruins_minaret
02_03_04rooftopsminaret
02_03_05rooftops
02_03_06minaretdawn
02_03_07orangelight
02_03_08greenlight
02_03_09obelisk
02_03_10mountaindusk
02_03_11minnaret

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