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@marcusjmerritt.com

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(He/him). I draw power lines and TVs and do urban landscape photography. Metro-Detroit. Abolish police. Free Palestine. Trans rights. Art store: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com Main art website: marcusjmerritt.com Tips: https://ko-fi.com/marcusjmerritt

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · Jul 15

Also, and this is new—commissions are open!

Are there some power lines you want a drawing of? Contact me and we can work out the details (DM here or email), but basically:

$200 and send me some photos of the power lines and I'll draw them and mail you the finished drawing!

Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 15h

Power Lines Drawing #119 (Detroit, W Jefferson)

Prints of this drawing are for sale by me here | $40
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Black and white image of a black ink drawing of a silhouette of utility poles and power lines

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 13h

More Objects from Films (The Wolf Man [1941])

Original drawing for sale by me here
8x10 | $200
marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/the-...

Black ink drawing of a table lamp with a shine bulb-shaped base

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 7h

I mean maybe everyone just repeatedly taking short term memory loss, brain fog and other blows to their brains, nervous and circulatory systems over the last five years helped create the conditions for the fascist total unreality

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 7h

Thank you!

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 13h

More Objects from Films (Mr. Vampire II [1986])

Original drawing for sale by me here
10x8 | $200
marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/mr-v...

Black ink drawing of a boxy old television set, buttons and sliders for controls to the right of the screen

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 15h

Power Lines Drawing #114 (Detroit, Buchanan St)

Prints of this drawing are for sale by me here | $40
marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

Black and white image of a black ink drawing of a silhouette of a utility pole and power lines

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 15h

Power Lines Drawing #39 (Hamtramck)

Prints of this drawing are for sale by me here | $40
marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/hamt...

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 11h

Ferndale, Michigan, July 2025

Color photograph looking across a darkened residential street at night at the front of a small brick house with a yard filled with native plant, some landscaping lights shining around the darkened yard. Trees behind the house blend with its silhouette against a glowing night sky

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 11h

Ferndale, Michigan, July 2025

Color photograph looking across a residential street at night at the front of a house, light from a streetlight illuminating the street and front yard and casting dark shadows from overhead tree branches, the front of the house set back in shadow and illuminated by a warmly glowing porch light

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 11h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 14h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 12h

Sold!

Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · Mar 10

from Lifeforce (1985)
8 x 10 black ink on paper
$200

marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/life...

Black ink drawing of a black rectangular analog clock showing 3 o'clock

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 13h

More Objects from Films (Mr. Vampire II [1986])

Original drawing for sale by me here
10x8 | $200
marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/mr-v...

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 13h

More Objects from Films (The Wolf Man [1941])

Original drawing for sale by me here
8x10 | $200
marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/the-...

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 14h

Art contribution by @jalaffler.bsky.social of Off Color Brewing

The blank back of a beer mat with a little sharpie drawing of a kitty cat on it and the words ‘maybe it will happen today’

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 15h

Power Lines Drawing #39 (Hamtramck)

Prints of this drawing are for sale by me here | $40
marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/hamt...

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 15h

Power Lines Drawing #119 (Detroit, W Jefferson)

Prints of this drawing are for sale by me here | $40
marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 15h

Power Lines Drawing #114 (Detroit, Buchanan St)

Prints of this drawing are for sale by me here | $40
marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 15h

Power Lines Drawing #64 (Hamtramck)

Prints of this drawing are for sale by me here | $40
marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/hamt...

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 15h

More Objects from Films (Halloween [1978])

Original drawing for sale by me here
8x10 | $150
marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/hall...

Black ink drawing of a black rotary phone, drawn as if details are a little out of focus

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 15h

More Objects from Films (Shockproof [1949])

Original drawing for sale by me here
8x10 | $200
marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/shoc...

Black ink drawing of an old timey payphone on a wall

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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 19h

Thread on ICE in holland, Northeast Minneapolis the morning of 10/10/2025.

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 18h

🎧 “‘Life‘ is a Trammell Starks cover. His version was commissioned for & originally appeared on the Weather Channel’s Local On The 8s broadcasts. The vapor-adjacent world is now being presented this beautiful song yet again, but as a fully realized MIDI cover with breakbeats, guitar & bass”

Life, by Fire-Toolz

from the album Private Angel Message

fire-toolz.bandcamp.com

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 19h

Saw Zola Jesus perform here when it was Assemble Sound, which was very cool

EHERG / Red @hergenreder.bsky.social · 20h

This week’s video is on the St. Paul's German Evangelical Lutheran Church, which was completed in 1873 in Detroit’s #Corktown Neighborhood. It later became Assemble Sound, a music company, and was sold to Ford in 2023. Check it out: youtu.be/_pzXOraq-4w

Why The Ford Motor Company Bought A 150+ Year Old Church

YouTube video by This Building Matters

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 1d

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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