Join us for a special Earth Week Exhibit featuring photography by Charles Aydlett.
Opening Reception with Charles (Open to the public): April 15, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
More about the Exhibit:
Fleeting Moments is Aydlett's ongoing fine art print collection, documenting short-lived conditions in natural and built environments — the narrow windows when weather, light, or season converges into something unrepeatable. The first series featured moments from Big Sur, California. This exhibition, the second series - Ice Season - turns to Lake Michigan during the stretch of winter when everything is in transition—when the lake is neither fully frozen nor fully open. Ice forms, breaks, drifts, and reforms along the shoreline, creating patterns that can disappear as quickly as they arrive.
Photographed from above, the lake starts to lose its familiar sense of scale. The ice presents more like texture and structure—fractures, clusters, and shifting fields that feel closer to maps or geological systems than to a traditional landscape. At the same time, there are moments where the shoreline reappears, or humans enter the frame - providing scale to the space.
What draws me to this period is how temporary it all is. These formations and conditions might last a few days, sometimes only hours, before changing again. The surface looks still, but it’s constantly moving—reshaped by wind, weather, and waves.
A handful of prints in this exhibition are available as postcards, produced in collaboration with his son Lincoln, whose choice of layered color — chocolate mint ice cream, cotton candy, and more — gives each one its palette.
About Charles:
Charles Aydlett is a photographer based in Leelanau County, Michigan, whose work spans architectural and fine art photography. He holds a background in civil engineering — work that included design from mass transit to Olympic venues — and brings that discipline for scale, geometry, and built environment to everything he photographs.
His commercial work is broadly published and recognized. Photographs from his documentation of New York's Second Avenue Subway were featured in Wired. His photography has appeared on the cover of i+D Magazine (official publication of the American Society of Interior Designers) with projects receiving awards from The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and Graphis. Featured artist work has appeared at West Elm, and his photography has been published in the New York Times and Entertainment Weekly. His gallery show Lineups, presented in Brooklyn, New York, marked an earlier chapter of his practice as a fine art photographer.
Learn more about Charles HERE.