Circle of Life // Burak Bedikyan // Album Cover

Amazing jazz musician/piano player/compositor and dear friend Burak Bedikyan asked me to create an album cover artwork for his first album.

His album had various strong feelings and approaches throughout the 60 minutes long beautiful voyage. This is what I came up with.

The album is available on amazon, and its really good, get it :)

album

Somewhere inbtwn, somehow still breathing

two

Finally finished it

I was on and off on this project for a pretty long time. Work, travel, this that.. they all took me away from it but I am happy that finally I can say : done

You Are Gone | BLUE MONARCH from Serkan Ertekin on Vimeo.

hadi vur bana sevgili ben

something that I miss quite a lot nowadays

cut me

I AM NOT A TEST DUMMY cause I fail under pressure

lady in the shower

land and the flower ---

New test for one of the scenes in the film

LAND AND FLOWER test from selpakius on Vimeo.

eyes / journey / wip

test for one the scenes in the film

eyes from selpakius on Vimeo.

young queen

of "wallcrack", maybe?

Bigtooth

I can't upload a full size of this work, plus blogger puts a compression on the files, loosing quality big time, It is pissing me off now! Well anyways..here we go with 2 detail crops

woman

another style frame study for "against the war"

piano

Style frame study for "against the war"

Ballerina

K

nothing can be finished

end,

but not finished

HIDDEN

If you place a fern
under a stone
the next day it will be
nearly invisible
as if the stone has
swallowed it.

If you tuck the name of a loved one
under your tongue too long
without speaking it
it becomes blood
sigh
the little sucked-in breath of air
hiding everywhere
beneath your words.

No one sees
the fuel that feeds you.


Naomi Shihab Nye

idea

I made this sometime ago, it was an idea which nourished into a bigger one later on, still on it, it isn't a finished comp by any means, but wanted to put it out, too heavy for my computer.
The background is a picture I've found on flickr. Can't find it again.