I don’t know how to say it, so I’ll just say it
(It just feels so braggy.)
My eBook Vigil won a prize.
Friends of Great Salt Lake established the Alfred Lambourne Arts Program which celebrates art and creativity about our beautiful Great Salt Lake. Friends of Great Salt Lake awards in the categories of Visual Arts, Literary Arts, Movement, and Sound. Vigil won the Literary Arts Category. I had to take five relief services off from work just to attend the awards program, but it was worth it. The submissions were all incredibly creative, beautiful, and deeply inspiring. It was truly an honor just to attend the program.
One of the standouts in the show was by artist Kellie Bornhoft. Her piece was called “By a Thread.” She created hundreds of light and lofty fabric flags with images of plants, animals, insects that depend on Great Salt Lake for survival. The remaining flags are available for purchase and will help Friends of Great Salt Lake.
Vincent Mattina is a multi-media artist whose short film “41.115791 -112.476830” won the video/movement category. It is beautiful and terrifying all at the same time. I loved it! (In case you did not guess, the title is the coordinates of Great Salt Lake.)
One of my other favorite submissions, called “Spiral Jetty-Centered",” is a seismic recording of the North Arm of Great Salt Lake, recorded at the Spiral Jetty by Jeffrey Moore. He sped up hours of recorded material to condense it to a 7.5-minute audio recording. (It reminded me of a piece of music I played once that was based on recordings made at a glacier called Threnody (Sikuigvik) by Matthew Burtner.) I found it beautiful, musical, and immersive. The land is talking to us; we just need to listen. You can read more about the process by Jeffrey Moore and his team here.
Alfred Lambourne was an English painter and writer who came to Utah as a child with his family in the 1850s. He homesteaded on Gunnison Island, lived there for a year by himself, and wrote about the experience. It became the book, “Our Inland Sea.” While he was a self-taught painter, his style is consistent with the “Rocky Mountain School” of painting. If Alfred Lambourne was using photography as his medium today, one might call it “Grand Landscape,” with an emphasis on big, breathtaking landscapes with dramatic weather conditions and stunning light.
You can check out a few of Alfred Lambourne’s paintings at the Springville Museum of Art’s website. I love the painting titled, “Gunnison Island on the Inland Sea, Great Salt Lake,” and “Moonlight, Silver Lake, Cottonwood Canyon.” The latter makes me want to plan a full moon shot there.
To celebrate Vigil’s Lambourne win, I am offering prints for sale. All proceeds will be donated to Friends of Great Salt Lake. I have two remaining prints on metal of images included in Vigil. (If you have not seen photographs printed on metal before, they are amazing.)
One is Encrusted. It measures 30” wide by 17” tall. The other is A Crack in the Sky, measuring 30” wide by 10.5” tall.
Encrusted. $150 All proceeds go to Friends of Great Salt Lake
A Crack in the Sky. $150 All proceeds go to Friends of Great Salt Lake
Additionally, Vigil eBook digital download is now free! And if you like any of the images available in my store, I will print them on fine art paper for you, and donate all proceeds to Friends of Great Salt Lake.
gotta say it looks really great on fine art paper…take a peek!