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Ecotone<\/h1>\n

The Body as Transitional Zone<\/p>\n

Where skin ends and environment begins \u2014 and the impossibility of drawing that line.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

In ecology, an ecotone<\/em> is the zone where two ecosystems meet: the strip of ground where forest becomes meadow, where fresh water meets salt. Ecotones are not boundaries; they are negotiations. They are where the highest biological diversity occurs, because two logics overlap. Ecotone<\/em> photographs the nude body as exactly this kind of zone \u2014 the place where the human and the non-human are not separate but continuous.The theoretical ground for the series is Donna Haraway’s concept of natureculture<\/em>: the recognition that nature and culture are not opposites, that every meadow is partly human and every human is partly geological. Tim Ingold’s anthropology of walking, Anna Tsing’s writing on contaminated landscapes, Val Plumwood’s ecofeminism \u2014 these are the frames within which the series has developed. What they share is a refusal of the picturesque tradition in which “nature” exists as an untouched backdrop for human presence. In Ecotone<\/em>, there is no backdrop. The body and the environment are in the same image, at the same ontological level.This puts the series in tension with a long art-historical lineage it could be mistaken for: the pastoral nude. From Titian’s Bacchanal<\/em> to Cameron and Stieglitz to the countless workshop photographs of bodies-in-meadows, the nude in landscape has been a tool for producing an image of harmony, nostalgia, or transcendence. Ecotone<\/em> does not disavow these images; it holds them alongside harder work \u2014 figures among rocks, bodies walking into coastal wind, subjects whose presence is continuous with a working landscape rather than a romantic one \u2014 and asks the viewer to sit with the full range.<\/p>\n

Animals, when they appear, are not symbols or props. The horses, in particular, are photographed as fellow subjects: they share the frame without being subordinated to the human figure. The compositions are built to refuse the hierarchy that usually separates figure from ground. No one is the protagonist.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Selected Works<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>
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\u00a0Sub Series of Ecotone<\/strong><\/p><\/h3><\/div>

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Only You Are Close, When Everything Is Far Away<\/a><\/h1><\/h4><\/div>
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Landsnude<\/a><\/h1><\/h4><\/div>
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Ecotone – Gallery<\/h3><\/div>
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Sub-Series & Editions<\/h2>\n

Ecotone<\/em> includes two related projects. Only You Are Close When Everything Is Far Away<\/em><\/a> extends the series’ engagement with grasslands and mountain landscapes. Landsnude<\/em><\/a> was presented as a group curatorial exhibition at Artcore Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2015, with the artist acting as curator and lead photographer.<\/p>\n

Archival pigment prints are released in limited editions of 5 + 1 Artist Proof on Hahnem\u00fchle Photo Rag and Baryta papers. Selected works are available through Artsper<\/a>, Saatchi Art<\/a>, and Artmajeur<\/a>. For direct inquiries, exhibition loans, or collector pricing: print@burakbulut.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n