Marcus

@marcusjmerritt.com

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I mostly post drawings and photography by me.

Often Hamtramck/Detroit

Abolish police

Art website: marcusjmerritt.com

Art store: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com

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Always a little bittersweet to mail off one of my personal favorite drawings, but this drawing has been sold! More Objects from Films (The Thing [1982]) marcusjmerritt.com/objects-from...

Detroit, Michigan, June 2024

This print is for sale here—along with quite a few other prints of my Power Lines Drawings marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

@marcusjmerritt.com love this. Love. Thank you!

Detroit, Michigan, January 2024

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 2023

Drawings by me of lamps from films Twin Peaks: The Return: Part 4 (2017) Blue Hawaii (1961) Dressed to Kill (1980) In a Year with 13 Moons (1978) marcusjmerritt.com/objects-from...

From an old poem back when I was writing poems like this, I've always really liked how these lines came together: "It is not darkness, it’s violence, that surrounds us, and state violence / with its face turned away seems to function as a transparent medium" (blank image for spillover alt text)

Detroit, Michigan, June 2024

Drawings by me of objects from Twin Peaks: The Return: Parts 1-4 marcusjmerritt.com/objects-from...

More Objects from Films (Twin Peaks: The Return: Part 4 [2017]) marcusjmerritt.com/objects-from...

Detroit, Michigan, April 2024

Detroit, Michigan, March 2024

Hibiscus

Lily after the rain

Power Lines Drawing #50 (Detroit, North End) Prints of this drawing (signed, limited) are available at my store: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

Power Lines Drawing #64 (Hamtramck) Prints of this drawing (signed, limited) are available at my store: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/hamt...

Detroit, Michigan, June 2024

My four most recent drawings of televisions from films Basic Instinct (1992) Twin Peaks: The Return: Part 2 (2017) Mr. Vampire II (1986) Super Mario Bros. (1993) marcusjmerritt.com/objects-from...

Some of my drawings of power lines around Detroit from the first half of this year #PortfolioDay marcusjmerritt.com/power-lines-...

Finally clicked that it's Robert Mitchum who I keep thinking Brooks Lee looks exactly like

More Objects from Films (Super Mario Bros [1993]) marcusjmerritt.com/objects-from...

Detroit, Michigan, June 2024

Hamtramck, Michigan, June 2024

Hamtramck, Michigan, October 2023

Hamtramck, Michigan, June 2024

One of the local cats is hanging out on our garbage bin in back

Power Lines Drawing #64 (Hamtramck) Prints of this drawing (signed, limited) are available at my store: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/hamt...

Power Lines Drawing #78 (Detroit, North End) Prints of this drawing (signed, limited) are available at my store: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

Posts expressing this idea got me thinking about one of my favorite James Baldwin passages from The Fire Next Time www.newyorker.com/magazine/196...

…the dramatic sweep or bang of a March on Rome, it’s gonna feel a lot more “normal” than that and therefore easier to dismiss by many elite pundits 2) ask an older Black voter if it’s hard to believe that America may no longer be a democracy at some point in its modern history.

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They replaced the lead lines (!) into our houses with copper, so this is a good thing. But the street in front of my place looks rather ominous just sitting like this today