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Thanks for following along, this has been @sammargevicius for The Camera Club of New York at Baxter Street. I’d like to leave you with one of my favorite poems by the great Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. . Ars Poetica (1960) . To gaze at a river made of time and water And remember Time is another river. To know we stray like a river and our faces vanish like water. . To feel that waking is another dream that dreams of not dreaming and that the death we fear in our bones is the death that every night we call a dream. . To see in every day and year a symbol of all the days of man and his years, and convert the outrage of the years into music, a sound, and a symbol. . To see in death a dream, in the sunset a golden sadness–such is poetry, humble and immortal, poetry, returning, like dawn and the sunset. . Sometimes in the evening there’s a face that sees us from the depths of a mirror. Art must be that sort of mirror, disclosing to each of us his face. . They say Ulysses, wearied of wonders, wept with love on seeing Ithaca, humble and green. Art is that Ithaca, a green eternity, not wonders. . Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining, a mirror to the same inconstant Heraclitus, who is the same and yet another, like the river flowing. . ✌️
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I went on a hike with two friends and a dog this summer. Watching the dog run around off her leash, in a state of complete and overwhelming joy, we wondered out loud “what is the human equivalent of being a dog off a leash?” The answer, we decided, was the feeling we get in the moment of clocking out of our job. Here’s to the weekend, to a freedom so close that we can just about see our own joy hidden under that tarp in the garden. . This is @sammargevicius posting images of my work and working process.
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A BETTER COMMUTE (2017) silver gelatin print, 16 3/4" x 22" . This is @sammargevicius posting images of my work and working process.
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Last year I was really interested in the number 4. A combination of causes, effects, and otherwise curious events came together in a way that made me feel as though the number 4 held a special power. It’s fun to think this way… so long as you, I dunno… don’t get too overwhelmed? In a lot of East Asian countries they don’t have 4th floors in buildings because the word “4” sounds like the word “death.” In my studio, which is sort of like my garden and which I share with the amazingly talented @miniature_garden, I have had these photographs taped up on the wall next to each other. Now I’m beginning to enjoy the number 3 and patiently await it’s various manifestations. This is @sammargevicius posting images of my work and working process. #studioviews #wip #photography #magic
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For the last couple months I’ve been working as a darkroom mural printer at a photo lab in Brooklyn. This metal vacuum board is my canvas; It’s the surface that film gets projected onto from a horizontal 8x10” enlarger. I use magnets to hold up test strips and fully custom sized papers. I’m an art laborer here, getting paid to quietly perform a craft that most often has little to do with the artist’s concept; still I am endlessly fascinated by the aesthetic traces of the many small utilitarian decisions I make. Here’s an example of what I mean 🤷🏼♂️🤓, these strips of paper cover various sections of the projected image as a way to conserve paper while testing exposure, contrast, dodging, and burning. I made this piece on my own time however, with a few extra slices of paper off the end of a 50” roll. Turning on lights to photograph the composition rendered the paper useless for photographic enlargement thereafter. Kind of the way intimate moments are ruined when someone puts a camera in front their face to “capture” the moment. Oh jeeze, you’re making it through all this technical jargon?!! When will pictures be enough without all the explanation 🙄😣🤔 I’m @sammargevicius sharing thoughts and images about the dark and esoteric art of #analog #photography for @baxterstccny #cameraclubofnewyork 🌻
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What camera and film to use? The answer to these questions are certain to affect the outcome of a day’s work in photography. Similarly, what shoes and jacket to wear are certain to affect the pleasure of a day’s play outdoors. Additionally, 3 bananas - wrapped in nature’s own impeccably designed protective casing - are more than enough. I love packing, at best it gives me that wonderful balance of preparedness and enough room for the unknown or intuitive response. . . This is @sammargevicius taking over the CCNY instagram account to share some images of my work and working process.
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“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” - Lewis Carrol . . This is @sammargevicius sharing some images of my work and working process. Also, hoping you have a healthy and delicious breakfast this fine Sunday morning.
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Hi this is @sammargevicius , I’m going to be sharing some images of my work and working process over the next week. I thought I’d start out with this picture of the tarp-covered section of a garden. This summer I was having a hard time moving on from the completion of a previous project so as a healthy practice I would force myself to go out and make pictures. I began to notice plastic tarps everywhere I looked, people seem to drape them over everything from garbage to precious cars and plants. I decided that photographing these utilitarian draperies was a way for me to be gentle with myself, and I came to think of the pictures as a practice in patience. One day my ideas would burst forth from beneath these curious surfaces, but for now they had a special place to live and grow. I guess a studio practice can be a lot like gardening. #bluetarp #gardening #studiopractice #wip #creativeblock #4x5 #colorfilm #artphotography #ccny
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