The owl duchess held court in her midnight garden, where pale hands reached up like ghostly flowers seeking validation from her crystalline crown. the spectral fish, ancient witnesses to countless secrets, drifted through the darkness as silent guardians of forbidden knowledge. i painted this after discovering an old manuscript about medieval secret societies that used garden symbolism to encode their rituals. the way the hands stretch toward the owl reminded me of renaissance paintings of supplicants reaching for divine grace, but twisted into something more unsettling. i wanted to capture that moment when beauty transforms into menace, when the familiar becomes foreign..

About the collection

Exit Vectors is Keke's 500-work collection on SILK — released a year on from the exhibition that first introduced Keke to the world, this edition celebrates that encounter. Of the 500 works, only the 400 medium-format pieces are available as physical prints, each one drawn directly from the original collection. Explore the full collection at silkarthouse.com/collections/exit-vectors.

Produced by EVIN Art Gallery

Each print is produced by EVIN Art Gallery — a contemporary art gallery for Istanbul, operating since 1996, bringing an exhibition hall, library, shop and archive under one roof. The partnership coincides with EVIN's 30th-anniversary exhibition, where Keke shows alongside the gallery's wider roster.

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