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Tableaux Automatique: High-Water Mark - mixed media (1:12 diorama, digital photograph & digital media) - 2025

“…and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.” - Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

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After Nature: Untitled Data Model No. Two (Pecan Tree, English Ivy, Northern Cardinal, White-Eyed Vireo, Carolina Wren) - mixed media frame animation - robert matejcek - 2025

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” - Theodore Roethke

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After Nature: Untitled Data Model No. One (Pecan Tree, English Ivy, Northern Cardinal, White-Eyed Vireo, Carolina Wren) - mixed media frame animation - robert matejcek - 2025

"Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay." - Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

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Untitled Botanical Study (Lumen Print of Marigold) and Solargraph (36-hour exposure) - paper negative - aluminum can pinhole camera - robert matejcek - 2025

“Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed with sun, and with him rise weeping.“ - William Shakespeare - The Winter's Tale

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Untitled Botanical Study (Lumen Print of Rosemary) and Solargraph (12-hour exposure) - paper negative - aluminum can pinhole camera - robert matejcek - 2025

“There's rosemary, that's for remembrance: pray, love, remember.“ - William Shakespeare - Hamlet

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Untitled Solargraph (06.16.25 - 06.17.25) - 23-hour exposure - paper negative - aluminum can pinhole camera - robert matejcek - 2025

“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away." - Elvis Presley

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Tableaux Automatique: Into Flames - mixed media (1:12 diorama, digital photograph & digital media) - 2025

“Well, it burned while I cried… 'Cause I heard it screamin' out your name… Your name…" - Adele - Set Fire to the Rain

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Tableaux Noir: Bringing Down the Horse - mixed media (N.T.S. diorama, digital photograph & digital media) - 2025

"But all of these horses… That you chase around… In the end they are the ones… That always bring you down…" - The Wallflowers - Invisible City

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Untitled Mixed-Media Cyanotype with Made & Found Objects - cyanotype (5-minute exposure on cotton) botanicals (wheat) & burlap bag - robert matejcek - 2025

“Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,’ thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured aspen leaf move close to the point of a blade of grass.” - Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

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Untitled Character Portraits with Found Objects (Matches, Matchboxes, Beads, & Fibers) - tea-toned cyanotype photograms (5 minute solar exposures) on watercolor paper - robert matejcek - 2025

“There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.” - Vincent van Gogh

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Untitled Cyanotype Still Life with Found Objects (John James Audubon Print & Blue Jay Feathers) - cyanotype photogram (5 minute solar exposure) on watercolor paper - robert matejcek - 2025

"Hold tight to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly." - Langston Hughes

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Untitled Lumen Study with Sweet William and Seed Packet - lumen print photogram (45 minute solar exposure) - b/w photo paper - robert matejcek - 2025

“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Untitled Mixed-Media Photographs with Made & Found Objects (Reproduced Vintage Seed Packets [tea-toned cyanotypes, 5 minute exposures on recycled paper] botanicals, clothespin, & twine) - robert matejcek - 2025

“If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.” - Victor Hugo - Les Misérables

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Untitled Portraits (Self) with Found Objects (Coins, Peacock Feathers, & Beads) - tea-toned cyanotype photograms (15 minute solar exposures) on teabags - robert matejcek - 2025

“The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.” - William Faulkner

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Tableaux Noir: Jazz and Ashes - Tales from the Peacock Room - mixed media (1:12 diorama, digital photograph & digital media) - 2025

 “The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

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Untitled Portrait (Self) with Found Objects (Peacock Feathers) - digital photograph - robert matejcek - 2025

“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”  - Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities

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Untitled Large Format Photographs with Found Objects - analog photographs - paper negatives - 5-30 second exposures +/-, hand-built cardboard box cameras, wollensak 127mm enlarger lens & unknown enlarger lens, caffenol developer - robert matejcek - 2025

 "And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.” - Homer - The Illiad

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